The Southern Colonies Maryland, Georgia, Virginia North and South Carolina

The Southern Colonies

Maryland, Georgia, Virginia North and South Carolina

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Mason-Dixon Line

• Two men started surveying 244 mile boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland– Charles Mason– Jeremiah Dixon



Mason-Dixon line

• A line that divides the south and north



Maryland

• Sir George Calvert persuaded King Charles I to give him land– Wasn’t well liked because he

converted from being a Protestant to a Catholic

– OMG!– Wanted a place where Catholics

could practice their religion



Maryland• Maryland was

named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria (the king’s wife)

• Calvert died before he got to his land– Son Lord

Baltimore Colony got the project on it’s way (Became Proprietor)



Maryland

• Protestants and Catholics were both welcome

• Act of Toleration: religious freedom for all Christians

Maryland

• Resources: fish, oysters, crabs, tobacco

The Carolinas

• North Carolina: mostly poor tobacco farmers

• South Carolina English Nobles set up establishments

Carolinas

• Farming:– Indigo: plant a valuable blue dye – Start growing rice

• Need people to grow/harvest– African population will outnumber European settlers

Georgia

• James Oglethorpe

• Wanted a place for debtors: – people who own money

• English law imprisoned debtors



Georgia

• Where do debtors go when they get out of jail?– To GEORGIA!

• At first . . .– Farmers could be no bigger than 500 acres

and slavery was outlawed

• Then . . .– Plantations grew and slavery were allowed

Turmoil

• Bacon Rebellion:– 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led an

uprising– Attacked Natives– Went to Jamestown and

burned it– Then Bacon died suddenly-

revote over• Followers hung



Trade

•Mercantilism: Nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade

•Exports: goods sent to markets outside a country

•Imports: goods brought into a country

Trade

• Navigation Acts: English Parliament passed laws to ensure that England benefits from colonial trade– English ships carry goods to and from the

colonies

Trade

• Yankees: merchants from New England– Dominated colonial trade

Trade• Triangular Trade:



Trade

• Need some government to control trade

• Legislature: people who have power to make laws– Christian men over 21 vote– Own property

Government• Magna Carta 1215

– King loses power

• John Locke 1682– Locke's ideas on

freedom of religion and the rights of citizens were considered a challenge to the King's authority by the English government and in 1682

– Exiled (told to get out) after he published his ideas



Government

• Glorious Revolution: King James II removed and Mary & William of Netherlands– Bill of Rights: written list of freedoms the

government promises to protect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkGFYlRSeg&feature=related

Who do you think was mad at this?Who gained the most?

Government

Why Lead to the Glorious Revolution?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DJP1jWf-

o&p=6B0309E79C5FA1D6&playnext=1

Gunpowder plot:







Government

• English Bill of Rights:– Rights of individuals – Right to trial by jury– Couldn’t raise taxes or an army without

approval of Parliament

NOT all English rights extended to colonist

Work Cited

• http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

• http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Henrietta%20Maria%20of%20France/

• http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/graphics/bacon.gif

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangle_trade.png

• http://withintheempire.blogspot.com/2009/11/science-and-occult-weird-history-part-i.html

http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Henrietta%20Maria%20of%20France/

http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Henrietta%20Maria%20of%20France/

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The Southern Colonies Maryland, Georgia, Virginia North and South Carolina