Southern Colonies Chapter 4 Section 3

1. Chapter 4
Section 3
Mrs. Barnette 2012
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2. Mason-Dixon Line
 Boundary line
between PA and MD
 Separated Middle
and Southern
Colonies
 Named after two
surveyors who
marked the 400 mile
boundary

3. Maryland
 Founded by Lord
Baltimore, the son
of Sir George
Calvert, a Roman
Catholic who lived
in Protestant
England.

4.  Charter granted in
1632
 Settled in 1634
 Baltimore gave large
land grants to
people with many
servants and family
members

5. Maryland
 Chesapeake Bay
area good for fish,
crabs, oysters
 Had a government
assembly
 Allowed
Protestants, as well
as Catholics

6.  ACT OF
TOLERATION-1649
allowed freedom of
religion only for all
Christians

7. Virginia
 Began with Jamestown
1607
 Tobacco was major
crop
 Westward movement
was causing problems
with Natives along the
frontier
 Colonists asked for
help, but got none
 Bacon’s Rebellion
followed

8. BACON’S REBELLION-
 1676 Nathaniel Bacon, a
planter, led raids against
Indians, regardless of
whether they were friendly
or not
 led followers to burn
Jamestown, the capital
 Bacon died; rebellion fell
apart
 23 of his followers hanged
 English settlers would
continue to move onto
frontier http://www.nps.gov/jame/historycult
ure/bacons-rebellion.htm

9. Carolinasnobles
 1663- 8 English
received a grant from King
Charles I
 1712 North Carolina formed-
mostly poor farmers drifting
down from VA
 1719 South Carolina formed-
mostly wealthy planters
 Charlestown(Charleston)
became major city- Settlers from
Barbados; later were Germans,
Swiss. French Protestants, and
Spanish Jews
 Rice and Indigo major crops
 Enslaved Indians, then Africans
 African slaves outnumbered
white settlers by early 1700’s

10. Georgia
 James Oglethorpe
founded in 1732 as a
place where debtors
could start over.
 Started with
smaller farms and
no slavery
 After plantations
and slavery
allowed, colony
grew quickly.

11. Tidewater v. Backcountry Life
Tidewater
 Large plantations developed along the coast
and the rivers and creeks of the coastal
plain.
 Major crops were tobacco and rice.
 Slave labor was used (20-100 on average).
Africans brought farming skills and the
ability to make things out of gourds and
palmetto leaves.
 Shipping ports developed into large cities
like Charleston and Savannah.

12. Backcountry
 This was west of the
Tidewater area.
 The Great Wagon Road
took settlers to the base of
the Appalachians.
 People treated each other
equally
 There were small farms,
not plantations.
 They were self-sufficient
farms, with very few slaves,
growing food crops and
hunting,.
 Life was harder, simpler,
and more closely knit.