1. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

2. Mason Dixon Line Was the survey to settle the boundary dispute between
Maryland and Penn.
Became the dividing line between the northern colonies and the southern colonies

3. Virginia Difficult living conditions and
disease produced a high death rate.
,000 settlers
,000 settlers
Native American population shrank from disease and violence with farmers planting tobacco
Farmers took over, planting tobacco

4. Got $, Got Best Land in Virginia
Wealthy land owners bought best land.
Poor colonists had no land for themselves.
Angry young men because without owning land they couldn’t vote.
Poor farmers moved inland to develop farms, angered Native Americans

5. Nathaniel Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon organized frontier settlers who began to attack Native Americans so they could move west to establish farms.
Governor declared Bacon a rebel!
Bacon attacks Jamestown and burns it to the ground.
There was no way to stop colonists from moving west into Native American lands.

6. Maryland George Cavert. Catholic was given a charter for a colony.
He set up Maryland as a colony safe for Catholics.
Passed Act of Toleration, welcomed all Christians and male Christians had the right to vote.
Beginning of “religious freedom” being part of the law.

7. The Carolinas
As Virginia settlers moved south, King Charles granted a charter for a “Carolina” colony.
North part developed slowly, poor harbors and rivers
Southern part grew quickly, due to sugar, rice, and indigo
The south had many more slaves

8. American Long Grain Rice
Crops of the Carolinas: Rice, Indigo
The primary export.
Rice was still an exotic food in England.
Was grown in Africa,
so planters imported West African slaves.
By 1710  black slaves were a majority in Carolina.
American Long Grain Rice

9. The Split of Carolina
Northern part of Carolina colony shared a border with VA.
VA dominated by rich planters who were members Church of England.
Dissenters from VA moved south to northern Carolina.
Poor farmers with little need for slaves.
Traits of North Carolinians
Non religious, hospitable to pirates, resistance to authority.
North Carolina Colony established 1712  NC officially separated from SC

10. Georgia Founded for 2 reasons As a land buffer between
South Carolina and the Spanish territory of Florida.
Place where there would be protection for English
debtors.
Wealthy Englishman,
James Oglethorpe
headed the founding of this colony

11. Georgia: Debtors Haven
Oglethorpe wanted
Georgia to be small farms without slaves so debtors could have a place to start their lives over and get out of debt.

12. The Southern Colonies Large plantations.
Grew crops that promoted the use of slaves.
South was divided between:
small number of wealthy white landholders with slaves on large plantations, mostly in the coastal plane.
Back country:
poor roads, far from the coast, isolated farms, one- room shacks.
Back country lifestyle sharp contrast from wealthy landowners along the coast.