A Day

◦Mercantilism Scenario Cards (Groups of 3)

B Day

1.What would make you leave “home” to travel to a

“New World”?

2. If you were a settler, who or what would you take with

you (consider professions)?

3.How many people would you bring with you?

4.Where would you settle (geographic features)?

THE SOUTHERN ENGLISH COLONIES

Ms. LucoIB US HistoryAugust 9-10

Standards

◦ SSUSH1 Compare and contrast the development of

English settlement and colonization during the 17th

century.b. Explain the development of the Southern Colonies, including but not

limited to reasons established, impact of location and place, relations with

American Indians, and economic development.

Objective

◦Students will be able to describe the English

settlement of the Southern colonies in order to

compare & contrast their development with

other regions along the eastern seaboard.

Southern Geography◦ Rich soil

◦ Long growing season

◦ Northern region- subsistence family farms

◦ Southern region- commercial farms

◦ Slave labor

◦ Increasingly violent relationship with American Indians

VIRGINIA

Jamestown (1607)

◦ Virginia Company

◦ Joint-stock company: a company run by a group of investors who share the

company’s profits and losses

◦ Granted royal charter by King James I –

gave company authority to settle and

govern a colony

◦ Ships and 100 men sent to

Chesapeake Bay

◦ Goal: Gold and other valuable

resources

◦ 1st permanent English settlement in

North America

Powhatan Confederacy

◦Chesapeake home to

about 14,000

Algonquin people

◦Powhatan Confederacy led by Chief Powhatan

◦ Maintained peaceful

coexistence at first

◦ Eager to form trading

alliance

Challenges of Jamestown

◦ Powhatan assistance and withdrawal

◦ Starving Time◦ Winter of 1609-10

◦ Over 400 colonists died

◦ James River- disease!

◦ John Smith

◦ “He that will not work will not eat.”

◦War against Powhatans◦ John Rolfe and Pocahontas

◦ Death of King Powhatan

Tobacco

◦ Introduced to England in 1580s

◦ “Merchantable commodity”

◦ John Rolfe’s role

◦ Required great deal of labor and land◦ Headright system: large plantations given

to wealthy colonists in return for transporting labor◦ Goal: Increase migration

◦ By 1622, 10,000+ colonists sent to Jamestown

◦Virginia in the mercantilist system

Virginia’s Labor Force

◦ Indentured servants contracted to serve for 4-7 years in return for passage to America

◦ In 1619, 20 slaves arrived in Virginia

House of Burgesses

◦Change to royal colony

◦House of Burgesses

(Established 1619)

◦ Elected representatives

◦ Authority over taxes and

finance

◦ Development of self-

government

MARYLAND

Founding of Maryland

◦ Calverts◦ 1632 King Charles I granted 10 million

acres to Lord Baltimore

◦ Catholic supporters of Charles

◦ Proprietary colony: all land belonged to 1 person/ group of people

◦ Acts of Toleration- freedom to all Christians

◦ Tobacco colony

THE CAROLINAS

Carolina

◦ Originally a single proprietary colony

◦ Charles II and the Restoration

◦ Northern region: Tobacco

◦ Southern region: Rice and indigo

plantations

◦ Transportation hub for cash crops

◦ Officially divided 1712

◦ Change to royal colonies

◦ South 1719

◦ North 1729

GEORGIA

Georgia

◦ Established 1732 (last English

colony in North America)

◦ 1. Defensive buffer between

valuable South Carolina plantations and Spanish Florida

◦ 2. Penal colony for debtors

◦ General James Oglethorpe

◦ Charter regulating land

holdings, etc.

◦ Greater autonomy by 1740s

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