IV. Southern Colonies

A. Coming to America

1. Establishing Maryland

a. Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

1. wanted to establish a safe

place for his fellow Catholics

2. Named colony Maryland

a. Potomac is its made river

b. To keep colonist from becoming to

dependent on tobacco they had to

grow corn

c. Baltimore (1729) was Maryland's

port

2. Aristocrats and Farmers

a. Aristocrats---wealthy and powerful

class

b. Lord Baltimore promised land to

farmers

1. 100 acres to each male settler

2. 100 for his wife

3. 100 for each servant

4. 50 for children

c. The colony imported indentured

servants and enslaved Africans

1. Indentured Servant

a. in return for payment of

their passage they agreed

to work without pay for a

certain period of time

3. The Mason Dixon Line

a. Penn and Calvert Family argue over

border of Pennsylvania and

Maryland

b. Architects Mason and Dixon laid out

the border for both colonies

4. Act of Toleration

a. Lord Baltimore passed the Act of

Toleration

1. granted Protestants and

Catholics the right to worship

freely

B. Virginia Expands1. Bacon’s Rebellion

a. Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy planter from the western part of Virginia

b. He complained that Easterners dominated the government

c. Blamed government for not protecting westerners from Indian attacks

d. Bacon’s burns down Jamestown

e. Shown that settlers were not willing

to be restricted to the coast.

Created a militia group to control

Indians and open more land for

settlement

C. Settling the Carolinas

1. 1680 city of Charles Town founded

2. John Locke wrote the constitution or plan

of government

3. Northern and Southern Carolinaa. North—grew tobacco didn’t have

good harbors. Relied on Virginia’s ports

b. South—more prosperous1. Rice became #1 crop2. Eliza Luca developed Indigo

a. “Blue Gold”4. Slave Labor in the Carolinas

a. Rice growing required more laborb. By 1708 more then half the

population in Carolinas are enslaved

D. Georgia

1. Oglethorpe’s Town

a. James Oglethorpe created a colony

for poor people and debtors

b. Georgia could protect the rest of the

colonies from Spanish Florida

c. Savannah is the first town built

d. Georgia had the highest non-

English population

e. At first you were not allowed rum or

slaves