1. The Thirteen English Colonies, 1630–1750
The American Nation
Chapter 4 – Section 3
The Southern Colonies
The Thirteen English Colonies, 1630–1750
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2. What geographical features would make life different in the Southern Colonies than in the New England Colonies or Middle Colonies?

3. Create a Matrix Chart for Key Terms
Key Term/ Person
Definition
Clue/Example/Sentence

4. Defining Key Terms and People
Key People
Mason-Dixon Line
Act of Toleration
Bacon's Rebellion
Indigo
Debtor
Slave code
Racism
Tidewater Plantation
Middle Passage
George C. Calvert
James Oglethorpe
Cecil Calvert – Lord Baltimore
Complete puzzle to check you answers.

5. Why was Maryland important to Roman Catholics?
The Southern Colonies
Chapter 4, Section 3
Objectives to learn:
Why was Maryland important to Roman Catholics?
How were the Carolinas and Georgia founded?
What two ways of life developed in the Southern Colonies?
Why did the slave trade grow in the 1700s?

6. Create a Notes Sheet 4-3 – Southern Colonies
Questions to Answer
Answers to Questions
Why was important to Roman Catholics?
My Answers:
Additional Information from Class:
How were the Carolinas and founded?
What two ways of life developed in the Southern Colonies?
Why did the slave trade grow in the 1700s?

7. I. Maryland Was Important to Roman Catholics
Chapter 4, Section 3
1632—Sir George Calvert, a Roman Catholic asked King Charles I for a colony in the Americas for Catholics.
1. Calvert named the colony Maryland after the King’s wife.
2. Calvert died, so his son, Lord Baltimore, took over.
1634—Settlers arrived in Maryland. Lord Baltimore appointed a governor and council of advisers, but he let colonists elect an assembly.
To have people settle the colony, Lord Baltimore gave generous land grants.
Maryland promoted religious tolerance = 1649—Lord Baltimore asked the assembly to pass an Act of Toleration, a law that provided religious freedom for all Christians.

8. Read Maryland’s Act of Toleration Summary – Answer: How does the Act of Toleration affect Maryland and other colonies?

9. The Establishment of Maryland (4:11)
What was life like in Maryland?

10. Maryland – A Colony of Toleration (2:20)
What was life like in Maryland?
What power did women have in Maryland?

11. Summarize: Bacon’s Rebellion
What Happened?
Why is it Important?

12. II. Bacon’s Rebellion
Chapter 4, Section 3
Settlers arrived in Virginia expecting profits from planting tobacco.
Wealthy planters already had the best lands near the coast, so newcomers were pushed farther inland, onto Indian lands.
Settlers and Indians clashed.
Settlers asked the governor for help. He wouldn’t act.
In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon organized angry frontier planters who raided Native American villages and burned Jamestown.
The revolt soon ended when Bacon died suddenly.

13. III. The Carolinas Are Founded
Chapter 4, Section 3
A. North Carolina
Settlers were poor tobacco farmers from Virginia
They lived on small farms
B. South Carolina
Established by 8 English nobles
Largest settlement was Charles Town (Charleston)
English settlers from Barbados
Grew rice and indigo = a plant used to make blue dye
Labor force was enslaved Africans

14. Summarize the differences in life in North Carolina verses South Carolina on the Venn Diagram while watching the videos

15. The Colony of North Carolina (3:49)

16. The Colony of South Carolina (3:49)

17. B. First settlement was Savannah C. Strict rules
IV. Founding of Georgia
A – Founded by James Oglethorpe to give English debtors (people who owed money they could not pay back) a fresh start.
B. First settlement was Savannah
C. Strict rules

18. The Colony of Georgia (6:57)
What was life like in colonial Georgia?

19. V. Two Ways of Life in the Southern Colonies
Chapter 4, Section 3
Land
Farms
Crops
Slavery
Tidewater Plantations
Backcountry
coastal plain, many rivers
rolling hills, thick forests
large plantations
small farms
tobacco, rice, indigo
tobacco, garden crops
Enslaved Africans tended Tidewater plantations
Few enslaved Africans worked backcountry farms.

20. Summarize Two Ways of Life in the Southern Colonies on the Venn Diagram

21. Plantation Life (2:20)

22. Layout of the Plantation (2:11)

23. Life in the Backcountry (3:12)

24. VI. Why the Slave Trade Grew in the 1700s
Chapter 4, Section 3
1619
1600s
Early 1700s
1700s
First enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia.
Some Africans remained enslaved, some were servants, a few were free.
Carolina plantations needed large numbers of workers.
The planters came to rely on slave labor.
Slave ships carried millions of enslaved Africans west across the Atlantic.
Colonists enacted slave codes.
Many colonists displayed racism, though a few spoke out against slavery.
Middle Passage – passage of slave-trading ships from Africa to the United States across the Atlantic Ocean
slave codes—laws that set out rules for slaves’ behavior; treated enslaved Africans as property
racism—the belief that one race is superior to another

25. How did the growth of the Slave Trade happen? (2:00)

26. On a Slave Ship on the Middle Passage
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE

27. Map of the Atlantic Slave Trade

28. Captured Africans being taken to forts on the west coast of Africa to await the Middle Passage

29. Slave Ships

30. Condition of Slave life in the New World
Workday – 18 hours or more
Everyone had an assigned task – Labor was organized by age, sex, and ability
Received rewards for good work – best reward was to escape punishment
Punishments – whipping, flogging, confinement in irons, mutilation
Little time for recreation – singing
No education
Life expectancy – 23 yrs. for males; 25 yrs. for females – greatest killer was disease

31. Slaves in the New World Conditions were much worse in Central America

32. Height of Slave Trade
1700s – 60,000 Africans a year – reached its height in 1780 with the European demand for sugar

33. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1:00)
What was life like for slaves?

34. The Middle Passage and Slaves in the Colonies (2:25)
What was life like for slaves?

35. The Slave Trade in the Colonies (3:19)
What was life like for slaves?

36. Life on the Plantation for Slaves (2:02)
What was life like for slaves on the plantation?

37. Exit Ticket
Locate the region where life centered around large tobacco and rice plantations.
A. The New England Colonies
B. The Middle Colonies
C. The Southern Colonies
D. The Western Colonies

38. Section 3 Assessment The Southern Colonies were especially known for
Chapter 4, Section 3
The Southern Colonies were especially known for
a) shipbuilding.
b) fishing and whaling.
c) iron.
d) rice and tobacco.
One reason why the slave trade grew was that
a) plantations needed large numbers of workers.
b) so many slaves died during the voyage.
c) colonists were defying the Quakers who spoke out against it.
d) sparsely populated colonies like Georgia needed more people.
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39. Section 3 Assessment The Southern Colonies were especially known for
Chapter 4, Section 3
The Southern Colonies were especially known for
a) shipbuilding.
b) fishing and whaling.
c) iron.
d) rice and tobacco.
One reason why the slave trade grew was that
a) plantations needed large numbers of workers.
b) so many slaves died during the voyage.
c) colonists were defying the Quakers who spoke out against it.
d) sparsely populated colonies like Georgia needed more people.
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