The Southern Colonies

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

5. 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 were welcome…..Catholics began to be persecuted

6. Virginia • Began with Jamestown • Expanded through growth of tobacco plantations

7. 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?

10. 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

11. Carolinas • South Carolina • More prosperous than North • Had harbor of Charles Town (Charleston) • North and South Carolina became two separate colonies in 1712.

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

15. 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

16. Plantations • Enslaved Africans worked on large plantations to grow and harvest • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo • Cotton • By 1708, more than half the people living in SC 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

17. Plantations intro to slavery • Enslaved Africans had no rights • Considered nothing but property to be bouht and sold.

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Triangular Trade

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

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

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