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Warm Up

Warm Up. Answer on your warm up notebook paper: The Mayflower Compact was an important step in the development of American democracy because it – Established the principle of separation of church and state Provided an example of colonial self government

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up Answer on your warm up notebook paper: The Mayflower Compact was an important step in the development of American democracy because it – • Established the principle of separation of church and state • Provided an example of colonial self government • Defined relations with local Native American Indians • Outlawed slavery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

  2. Southern Colonies Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

  3. Maryland (economic and religious) • Place for Catholics • Planted tobacco, corn, wheat • As the plantations increased so did the need for slaves

  4. Act of Toleration • Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) presented it to protect Catholics • It made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime • One of the first laws supporting religious tolerance in the English colonies

  5. Virginia (economic) • First English Colony– 1607 • Tobacco- cash crop

  6. Indentured Servants • At first there were more indentured servants than slaves in Virginia. • However, the demand for workers was greaterthan the supply of people willing to work as indentured servants under the harsh conditions.

  7. Bacon’s Rebellion • During the mid 1600s colonists grew angry with the conditions in Virginia • Poor colonists believed members of the Virginia assembly were ignoring their concerns • Many of them began farming on land that belonged to the Native Americans. • In 1676 a group of former indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon attacked some peaceful Native Americans.

  8. Bacon’s Rebellion Continued • When the governor tried to stop Bacon they attacked and burned Jamestown • Bacon controlled much of the colony until he died of fever. After he died the rebellion ended and 23 of the rebels were hanged. • After the rebellion it was hard to make peace with the Native Americans. • Fears of future uprisings by indentured servants led more farmers to depend on slave labor

  9. North Carolina (economic) • Grew tobacco & sold tar & timber • North Carolina and South Carolina used to be one colony • Founded by a group of proprietors

  10. South Carolina (economic) • fertile farmland and a good harbor • rice was the leading cash crop • indigo – cash crop • By 1708 more than half the people living there were slaves

  11. Georgia (social) • James Oglethorpe created it for debtors and former prisoners to start over • Georgia could protect the other colonies from Spanish attack • Last English colony

  12. Geographical Characteristics -Fertile soil and warm climate - large farms (plantations)

  13. Economy • Agriculture (farming) -Cash crops: tobacco, rice, indigo

  14. Plantation • Large farms that used slave labor (usually used 20 or more slaves) • usually located near a river for shipping)

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