1. Coach Kuntz United States History
The Southern Colonies
Coach Kuntz
United States History

2. Maryland
-In 1632, Sir George Calvert was granted land for a colony in the Americas. As a Roman Catholic, he wanted a colony where Roman Catholics could practice their religion freely.
-Calvert died before the colony could get underway, so his son, Lord Baltimore, began the project.
-Lord Baltimore appointed a governor but allowed colonists to create and elected assembly.

3. Maryland (Cont.)-Religious Tolerance
-Over the years, both Protestants and Catholics came to the Maryland Colony.
-Lord Baltimore worried that eventually Protestants would stop Catholics from being able to practice their beliefs.
-In 1649, Lord Baltimore asked the Maryland assembly passed the Act of Toleration that provided freedom for all Christians to practice their beliefs in the colony.

4. Virginia
-The Virginia Colony was established in 1607 through a charter to the Virginia Company of London.
-John Rolfe is credited as bringing tobacco to the colony. Tobacco was the colonies most valuable export.

5. Bacon’s Rebellion
-Virginia colonists continued to arrive in the colony and pushed further and further onto Native American lands. Native Americans retaliated by fighting these colonists.
-In 1676, a young Virginia planter named Nathaniel Bacon led a raid on many Native American villages. He was angry that Virginia’s governor would not protect settlers from Native American attacks.
-Bacon and his followers burned the Virginia capital of Jamestown to the ground.
-Bacon died suddenly of dysentery and the rebellion fell apart.

6. The Carolinas
-In 1663, eight English nobles received a land grant from the king to establish a colony in the Carolinas.
-The nobles created two separate colonies:
North Carolina-This colony was made up of mostly poor tobacco farmers who drifted down from Virginia. They tended to have small farms.
South Carolina- The larger of the two Carolina colonies. The largest settlement, Charles Town, was mostly made up of English people who had been living in the Caribbean.
-Carolina farmers grew rice and indigo (a plant used to make a valuable blue dye). The farmers relied on slave labor to grow these crops. By 1700, most people coming to Charles Town were African Slaves.

7. Georgia
-In 1732, the colony of Georgia was founded by an English soldier named James Oglethorpe.
-The colony was established as a place where debtors could make a fresh start. Oglethorpe offered to pay for debtors to travel to Georgia.
-Debtors- people who owed money they could not pay back.
-Rules were put in place that forbid farms bigger than acres and outlawed slavery. These rules slowed the growth of Georgia.
-Later on, large farms and slavery were permitted, and the colony began to grow very quickly.