1. Warm Up – 2/23/17 What becomes the first cash crop in the colonies?
What is the first law making representative assembly in America?
What is an indentured servant?

2. England Settles the New World
Southern and Middle English Colonies

3. Maryland: Catholic Haven
Catholics facing persecution in England
Catholic leaders decide to settle an all-Catholic colony
1632: King Charles I grant charter to:
Lord Baltimore (a wealthy, Catholic aristocrat)
Become proprietary colony
Founded by private individuals, power to make and execute laws
Officially founded 1634
Named after Catholic Queen Mary
Many Catholic and Protestants…..many issues
Maryland Act of Toleration
Religious toleration to ALL Christians
EXCEPT: Jews, atheists and others who didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ…..got death penalty

4. The Carolinas
King Charles II was interested in the unsettled lands b/w Virginia and Spanish Florida
Open to all Christians…hoping to bring others from less tolerant colonies
Flourished by developing close economic ties with the West Indies
Many original Carolina settlers came from Barbados and brought strict
“slave codes” for ruling slaves
Rice emerged as the principle crop
African slaves were hired to work on rice plantations
Had resistance to malaria and familiar with rice
Regions separate when investors sold their land in the north to the crown…thus creating NC and SC

5. Carolinas Separate….1712 NC
People strong willed and independent minded
Developed strong resistance to authority
Lacked good ports and population was sparse
Begin to grow tobacco
Use pine/pine tar for commercial goods SC
People more aristocratic and wealthier
Had good ports - Charles Towne
Farmed sugar cane, tobacco, rice and indigo
Rely on slave labor…from West Indies

6. Georgia…1733
Last colony
Intended to be a buffer zone b/w British colonies and hostile Spanish settlements in Florida
James Oglethorpe wanted to establish a colony for poor debtors (prisoners) to get a fresh start
Was a humanitarian - person interested in improving peoples lives
1732 – Issued a charter by King George II
Founded Savannah, Georgia
All Christians except Catholics enjoyed religious toleration

7. Middle Colonies

8. Pennsylvania Founded by William Penn Settled by Quakers
Called “City of Brotherly love”
Settled by Quakers
Sought religious freedom
Believed in the equality of men and women
Non-violent
Church beliefs:
No hierarchy of church (no priests no bishops no minsters)
Simple meetings everyone speaks
Only Christians can vote
Germans loved the farmland
Amish
Huguenots from France

9. Delaware
Royal colony
Under direct control of the King of England, who would appoint a governor
Founded in 1664
Originally colony of Swedes, then by Dutch and later seized by England
Given to William Penn so he could have access to the Delaware River

10. New York Explored by the Dutch in 1609
Allowed all religions and nationalities – boosted population
Originally named New Amsterdam
1674 – English fight the Dutch over the the land and finally seize it
King James II will rename it New York
Royal colony

11. New Jersey Part of the state was settled by Dutch and Swedish
In 1664 the entire area was surrendered to the English, and given its name.