1. The Southern Colonies Chapter 3 Lesson 4
Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Learning Goal: Students will be able to analyze historical and political maps, demonstrate connections between events, identify on a map the thirteen English colonies, and determine point of view of leaders and impacts of colonial leaders.

3. The Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

4. Maryland
Sir George Calvert, “Lord Baltimore” wanted a safe place for his fellow Catholics not to be persecuted
King Charles I gave Calvert a proprietary colony north of Virginia
Calvert died before he received his charter. His son continued to create the colony
Catholic and protestant…..Catholics began to be
persecuted

5. Virginia Began with Jamestown
Expanded through growth of tobacco plantations

6. Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) Nathaniel Bacon
Planter from western Virginia
Thought land belonged to the colonists NOT Native Americans and did not like government in Jamestown
Led an attack on Governor Berkely in Jamestown and drove Berkely into exile
Bacon would have taken over had he not died suddenly from dysentery Why is this important?

9. Carolinas North Carolina
Settled by farmers from Virginia’s back country
King Charles gave farmers the right to settle land
Relied on Virginia’s ports to conduct trade

10. Carolinas South Carolina
More prosperous than North
Had harbor of Charles Town (Charleston)
North and South Carolina became two separate colonies in

12. Georgia Settled to give a home to debtors
A place to give a fresh start to those who got in trouble in England
Established by James Oglethorpe
Colony was created to protect the other colonies from Spanish attack
A buffer colony
A military barrier

14. Economy of the Southern Colonies
Two forms of economy
Large plantations in the east.
Used enslaved workers
Small farms in the west.
Did not use enslaved workers

15. Plantations
Enslaved Africans worked on large plantations to grow and harvest
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Cotton
By 1708, more than half the people living in southern Carolina were enslaved Africans
Many people were indentured servants (one would pay for your way over and you worked off the ticket cost) 3-5 years

16. Plantations Enslaved Africans had no rights
Considered nothing but property to be bought and sold.

17. Small Farms These small farms were owned by families
Farmed for their own food and maybe to sell some.
Farms were not big enough to need slaves

18. Slave Labor in the Carolinas
Most colonists in Carolina came from the West Indies
Used slave labor to produce sugar
Brought slaves with them to the colonies
Most slaves worked in rice fields
Hard work so demand for slaves

19. Slave Labor in the Carolinas
Indigo was grown in South Carolina
Developed by Eliza Lucas
Charles Town = Charleston
Important port for the southern colonies for shipping goods

20. Triangular Trade

21. Sugar, cotton, tobacco traded to Europe
Slaves traded for sugar in
the Americas
Rum and textiles traded for slaves in Africa

22. Exit Card
Describe the events of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia. Why was this important? Explain.

23. Exit Card #14
Describe James Oglethorpe, Who was he? Was Oglethorpe's plan for a colony successful?