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Chapter 3 Section 4Southern Colonies
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore Catholic Wanted a safe place for Catholics who were
persecuted in England Died before he received the grant His son, Cecilius, inherited the colony Named after the Virgin Mary.
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay; up the Potomac River Fertile countryside Tobacco Corn Fruit Vegetables Livestock
Maryland
Main settlement of Maryland
Had large estates for close relatives and aristocrats from England
Promised 100 acres to each male settler, 100 for his wife, 100 for each servant, 50 for each child
Also imported African slaves and indentured servants
Baltimore
MASON – DIXON LINE
Pennsylvania Maryland
Calvert and Penn families argued over boundary between the colonies.
1760s; hired two British astronomers
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
Rocks were painted to create a visual boundary line
Boundary line between the North and South
Protestants outnumbered Catholics in Maryland
Calvert had to create a law to protect the Catholics
This law allowed Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely.
ACT OF TOLERATION, 1649
VIRGINIA EXPANDS
William Berkeley
Wealthy tobacco owners in Virginia had the best lands near the coast.
New settlers were forced to move inland.
Governor Berkeley sent explorers over the Blue Ridge Mountains to open up the Virginia territory.
BACON’S REBLLION Arrived at Jamestown
when he was 26. Had gotten into a lot
of trouble in England and his father hoped that sending him to Virginia would straighten him out.
He was a cousin to the governor’s wife.
BACON’S REBELLION After only one year in
Virginia, he became a member of the governor’s council.
Previously, only wealthy land owners who had been in the colony for a period of time were allowed to be on the council.
BACON’S REBLLION Berkeley had told the
Native Americans that the settlers would stay off their lands.
Bacon, however, opposed the governor.
Many refused to stay out of the lands in the west.
BACON’S REBELLION 1676 Bacon led a rebellion of
westerners in an attack on Native American villages.
Then, he set fire to the capital and drove Berkeley into exile.
The rebellion ended when Bacon died.
Showed that the colonists were not willing to be restricted to the coast.
CAROLINAS 1663 King Charles II created a large colony south
of Virginia Named Carolina. This meant “Charles’
land.” 1680 – main settlement – Charles Town The colony eventually separated into North
and South Carolina
CAROLINAS
North Carolina
Settled mostly by farmers
Grew tobacco and sold timber products
Did not have a good harbor
Relied on Virginia’s ports and merchants to conduct their trade
CAROLINAS
South Carolina
Fertile farmland Great harbor at
Charles Town Eliza Lucas – page 89 Slave labor
◦ Island of Barbados◦ Slaves were used to
produce sugar on the island
◦ Worked rice fields in Carolina
◦ By 1708, more than half the people in southern Carolina were slaves
GEORGIA
James Oglethorpe
A colony for English debtors and poor people could make a fresh start
Also used as a buffer to the Spanish settlements in Florida
Savannah – main settlement
1751 colony failed and was given back to the crown
NEW FRANCE Quebec Fur trapping Trade Fishing Built forts and trading
posts Worked with the Native
Americans and became friends
No permanent settlements
NEW SPAIN Mexico, the Caribbean,
Central and South America.
Also expanded into western and southern parts of what would one day be the United States.
1609 / 1610 – established Santa Fe
Spanish priests created a string of missions to Christianize the Indians
EUROPEAN CONFLICTS IN NORTH AMERICA Britain and Spain Britain and France France and Spain When fighting broke
out in Europe, it would often break out between the colonists; especially those in Georgia and Florida