1. The Southern Colonies Religion and Culture
Christopher Bonadio-Cappiello, Lynn Chu, & Jin-Hyuk Choi

2. Maryland (Jin)
Maryland is a small state on the east coast of the United States.
Maryland was founded by England and is part of the Southern Colonies. Maryland has many neighboring colonies. Pennsylvania is the neighbor of the north. Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean forms Maryland’s eastern border. Finally Virginia is the south neighbor of Maryland. Maryland is closer to Maine but it is called the Southern Colonies because Maryland was in the Southern half of the English Colonies most of the time. Also slaves and tobacco growing more in the South than the North really impacted Maryland and it’s culture.
This historical event was how they found Maryland. The Maryland colony was founded in 1630’s by George and Cecil Calvert. The two men were the first Lords in Baltimore, Maryland. They made Maryland a place where Roman Catholics and other persecuted people could live in peace.

3. Maryland Cont. (Jin)
In June 1692, under Royal Governor Copley’s direction, the general assembly named the Church of England. As Maryland’s official religion, everyone whether Church of Englanders, Catholics, Quaker, or Jews had to pay a yearly tax of 40 pounds of tobacco to help support the Church of England.
Culture
Maryland is weird because of the spot of it. Maryland looks like is the Eastern Colonies because it’s so in the top. But the climate and the history of Maryland impacted that Maryland belongs to the Southern Colonies.
Maryland is also producers of tobacco so they traded with the Indians and got some of the Indian’s culture too, which is also how they survived.

4. Virginia (Jin)
In 1620, a group of men and women came to America for a different mission. When they didn’t want to follow the Church of England religious rules, the Separatists also known as pilgrims set sail to the Americas. That really impacted the religion of the pilgrims of Virginia. They departed in the Mayflower (their ship). The Mayflower was very important to the Pilgrims because that was their only ship. There was also a lot people in 1 ship so that spreaded disease and seasickness. When they finally made it to the Americas, they had trouble there too. They couldn’t board off the ship because of Indian Attacks and hazardous issues. So in about 2 months, they finally went to the land and started their official town. It was called The Plymouth Colony. They started off at the wrong foot. They soon realized the food was low and there was not enough shelter for everyone. They soon made a rule “no work no food policy.” The Pilgrims wanted to have a different religion than the Church Of England because of the rules.

5. Virginia Cont. (Jin) Culture
Virginia is part of the Southern Colonies, so they grew tobacco. Tobacco was important to their culture because it provided trade.
They had many diseases.
They lived at the border of Maryland and is near the Atlantic Ocean
They also influenced from the Indians because the tribes helped them out and got many different arts and crafts from the Indians.

6. North Carolina (Lynn)
North Carolina is known the Tar Heel State and is the twelfth of the first thirteen colonies. As of the late 1700s, it had a population of 110,000 and was made up of two-thirds English background along with African Scottish, Irish, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Welsh backgrounds. In early North Carolina, some of the first people to settle were called Quakers. They did not believe in heaven, but believed in something called the Inner Light. They believed that every person had an Inner Light, and that the real way of connecting with god was not by studying the bible, but by individual prayer and meditation. Because they had the Inner Light, they believed to be a part of god, and were all connected to each other through it.

7. South Carolina (Lynn)
After the Carolinas split in 1712, the colony flourished. South Carolina developed indigo, rice, and cotton.
They became a strong colonial government as they:
warred with Indians
fended off pirates
fought with Spanish imperial outposts
birth rates were high
food was abundant
rapid growth in population
After, the colony developed a system of laws and and government, which led to a commitment to Republicanism.
South Carolina was not dominated in a certain religion, which gave religious freedom to baptists and others.

8. Georgia (Chris)
Georgia was called the empire state of the south, and people there were called Georgians.
Georgians were tough people that did not really farm. Georgians protected the rest of the colonies from the Spanish.
If someone could not pay their debt they would be sent to Georgia and thrown in jail, but a great English-man named James Oglethorpe decided to give debaters another chance.
James Oglethorpe was a soldier from England that helped the Georgia colony
Georgia was the place that had less production in crops than any other places because they protected the colonies from the Spanish. (The spanish were located in Florida)
In 1734, Oglethorpe returned to England to report about the Trustees and to raise money for Georgia. In london a Creek Indian named Tomochichi accepted the treaty between the Creeks and the Georgians.
While Oglethorpe was away 3 rules were passed. The rules were:
no slaves in the colony
no rum
no colonist was allowed to trade with Indians without given special permission
In 1735 Oglethorpe returned to Georgia with John Wesley and Charles Wesley. The Wesley brothers came to Georgia to serve as a missionary to the Indians.

9. Fun Facts (Chris)
Did you know that Georgia had two nicknames besides the Empire State of the south? Georgia was also called the Goober State (peanuts used to be called goobers) and the cotton state (after the civil war cotton was widely produced in Georgia and Georgia eventually became the best cotton producing place in the world)
Did you know the Baltimore Orioles were songbirds in Baltimore? The baseball team was named after the 2 lords.
Did you know a place in North Carolina known as "Fish Town" in the early 1700's when Blackbeard frequented the coast, "Beaufort Town" was established as a seaport with the right to collect customs, in 1722?
Did you know that the Carolina’s split in 1712 and then South Carolina developed indigo, rice, and cotton?
Did you know that the myth Pocahontas was located in Virginia?

10. Works Cited (Lynn)
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Fradin, Dennis B. "Chapter 3." The South Carolina Colony. Chicago: Childrens, Print
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11. Works Cited (Jin)
Fradin, Dennis B. The Maryland Colony. Chicago: Childrens, Print.
Fradin, Dennis B. The Virginia Colony. Chicago: Childrens, Print.

12. Works Cited (Chris)
Fradin, Dennis B. "Chapter 5, Chapter 1." The Georgia Colony. Chicago: Children's, N. pag. Print.
"North Carolina Fast Facts and Trivia." North Carolina Fast Facts and Trivia. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan