The Southern
Colonies
Chapter 3
Section 5
Virginia
Virginia
• Jamestown began to grow
• Labor demand was high
– Plant, tend, harvest tobacco
• Slaves
– 1619 first slave ship arrived
– Prisoners & Criminals
• Work for their release (~ 7 years)
– Indentured Servants
• For passage- work without pay for length of time
BACKGROUND
• Sir George Calvert
– Wanted a safe haven for Catholics
– Catholics are being persecuted in England.
Maryland
• Founded by Lord Baltimore (1634)
• English aristocrats
– More plantations
• More Labor
– Indentured Servants
• Work without pay for a certain length of time.
– Slaves
Mason-Dixon Line
•Maryland vs. Pennsylvania
–Charles MASON and Jeremiah
DIXON
•Map the colony boundaries
Protestants Welcome
• Lord Baltimore welcomed all
• Protestants outnumbered Catholics
• Protect Catholics
–Act of Toleration in 1649
•Right to worship freely
• 1692- “royal colony”
–Official protestant church
–Catholics restricted
Bacon’s Rebellion
BACKGROUND
•1640’s governor pledge with
Native Americans
–Land for no more in the future
Bacon’s Rebellion
•Nathaniel Bacon
–Against Berkeley
–1676 led attacks on Native
Americans
Bacon’s Rebellion
• Nathaniel Bacon
–Against Berkeley
–1676 led attacks on Native Americans
–Jamestown to kill governor
•Burned the town down
•Got ill…
•And died
Result of Bacon’s
Rebellion
• Government sent Berkeley out.
• Troops to Jamestown to restore order
• Government can not ignore the
demand of its people.
Carolinas
• 1663- King Charles II
–“Charles Land”
• 8 nobles
–Set up estates
–Sold and rented land
• John Locke
–Wrote Constitution
•Jobs and powers of the government
North Carolina
• Inland Virginia farmers
–Grew tobacco.
–Sold timber and tar.
–Used Virginia’s ports
South Carolina
• Fertile land
• Charleston harbor
• Trade in deerskin, lumber, beef
• 2 main crops
–Rice (1680)
•Most labor intensive crop
–Indigo (1740)
2 colonies
• 1729 Carolina officially became
2 royal colonies.
Georgia
•Founded in 1733
–Last British colony
•James Oglethorpe (founder)
Can’t earn
any Money
because
you are in jail.
English Debt Law
People who owed
Money could be put
in jail until debt was
repaid.
Be in jail because
you can’t pay
your debts.
Georgia
•Founded in 1733
–Last British colony
•James Oglethorpe (founder)
•Debtors and poor people
–Fresh start
•Stop Spain from Florida
Georgia
•Debtors didn’t stay
•Religious refugees
•People against Oglethorpe’s laws
–Limits on land, no slaves, no
rum
•1751 gave control back to the King
Start to Finish
•British have lined the eastern
coast
•Been in the New World for 150
years….