Warm Up  How are The Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses all related? What are they examples of? 1) Warm Up!

COLONIAL AMERICA: The Southern Colonies

Life in Virginia  Life different here than New England Colonies  Few towns b/c relied on rivers to ship goods Ships sail up rivers bringing European goods right to plantations Take tobacco from plantation for sale in England  Few Schools scattered population More concerned with making $$$- Kids worked!!!  Establish Families not important- tough too! 6x more men High death rate- marry several times Kids raised by step-parents or orphaned  Virginia Company of London brings more women for them to start families  Believed important for colony to prosper 2) Compare and contrast!

Labor Problems  Land Cheap  Each person paying for passage received 50 acres of land  Labor  Passage was expensive  People would pay for others in exchange for labor Indentures: contracts guaranteeing to work as servant for them until debt paid Known as indentured servants at one point 75% of Virginians were under indenture  Also if U pay for others… You kept their land (50 acres) until indenture paid off headright Known as a headright  Slavery  Dutch ship brings 1 st 20 Africans  Now race part of determining status  Until 1690 indentured servants were preferred Cost of slave higher Soon changes b/c logic Once debt paid off indentures” become competition 3) Downside… 4) Economic Advantage?

Bacon’s Rebellion  planters begin to eye good land guaranteed for Powhatan in 1646 treaty  Nathaniel Bacon raises lg. force to fight for it  Virginia Governor refuses to allow it Bacon does it anyway  Force massacres peaceful natives Governor declares them “rebels”  Bacon’s force turns on gov’t Sets fire to capital Jamestown and drives governor into exile  October Bacon falls ill and dies  Rebellion dies with him  Leads to changes, and eventually more land People had right to vote- now used it More slave use Trouble-making indentures not wanted anymore When debt paid- become competition Slaves always do what told Get kids too Soon completely dependent on slaves 5) How does this change things?

New Southern Colonies  King Charles I gives land to Lord Baltimore George Calvert  But dies B4 receiving grant, son takes over and establishes  Founds Maryland as refuge for Catholics Protestants welcomed too  Toleration Act (1649)  Guaranteed religious freedom  Successful b/c learned from mistakes of Jamestown  Turned right to tobacco, but required 2 acres of corn for every 1 acre of tobacco  King Charles II sets up proprietary colony (for making $$$) south of Virginia  Called “Carolina” meaning… Charles’ Land  Gave the colony to friends who helped him regain throne  Settlers begin arriving in 1670  Found city Charles Town in 1680, later Charleston  Becomes busy trading center and port city  Social and political center  settlers rebel b/c wanted greater role in gov’t  After 10 yrs. of fighting… King steps in and separates into 2 colonies North Carolina South Carolina MarylandCarolina (North & South) * Virginia population over 750 * Tobacco exports over 1 million pounds * Prosperity encourages more colonies * 7) Proprietary Colony 6) Toleration Act?

Georgia  Last of Southern Colonies  Not founded until 1733  James Oglethorpe and a few others start it as a colony for the poor  Debtors and poor use it as a place for new start  Few come b/c fear Spanish and Oglethorpe’s strict rules No liquor No slaves  colony failing  Colonists not happy  Tired of fighting w/ them  Gives the crown control of colony 8) Set up and failed… why?

Essential Question- Exit Ticket  Why were most of the Southern Colonies founded? 9) Exit Ticket

Essential Question- Exit Ticket  Label the five (5) Southern Colonies, and their date of settlement on the 13 Colonies Map.  Color all five (5) Middle Colonies GREEN.  Fill-in the reverse-side table with date, town, reason, and founder. Map / Table