Chapter 3:4 Southern Colonies

How they made a living: Farming

• Rice• Tobacco

Maryland• Settled by Catholic leaders• Wanted a safe haven for

Catholic• More diverse crops:

Tobacco and corn• Gave 100 acres to each

man, woman and children

Act of Toleration in 1649

• Protestants started to out number Catholics

• Protestants wanted to make Maryland a Protestant colony

• Maryland passes the Act of Toleration in 1649 to protect Catholics right to worship

• Granted Christians the right to worship freely.

Mason Dixon Line

• Ended boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland

Virginia

• Jamestown expanding

• Settlers moving West

• New settlers took Native American land

• 1655: Lord Berkely made deal with Indians

• Agreed to keep settlers off of Indian land in exchange for land.

Bacon Rebellion• Nathaniel Bacon: wealthy planter in the

West; backcountry

• Disagreed with arrangement with Indians

• Settlers settled on Indian land and was angry that government would not protect them

• Bacon and supporters rebel and burn down Jamestown capital and expelling Berkely from Virginia

• British soldiers put down rebellion

Significance of Bacon Rebellion

• Settlers were not content to stay on coast: wanted to expand West

• Settlers disagreement with Government and desire to take action.

The Carolinas

• 1670

• King Charles II granted charter to 8 prominent men

• Encouraged settlement to Carolinas

North Carolina• Northern part settled by farmers from

Virginia backcountry

• Grew tobacco and sold lumber

• Relied on Virginia to ship goods because no natural port

Slaves in the Carolina

• Because cash crop businesses, Carolinas imported slaves

Georgia

• Founded by Oglethorpe

• Original colonist were debtors who were in English Prisons.

• Non-British colonist settle in Georgia; refugees from Germany and Switzerland

• Originally banned slavery

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• What is religious tolerance?

• What is the significance of Bacon Rebellion?

South Carolina

• Great natural port: Charleston

• Grew corn and rice, sold lumber and cattle and eventually Indigo (1740’s)