Ch 4, Sec 3: The Southern ColoniesMAIN IDEA: The large tobacco and rice plantations of the tidewater region contrasted with the settlements of the hunters and farmers of the back country.

Maryland

Mason-Dixon Line: Divides the Middle Colonies from the

Southern Colonies

Founded by: Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Named after: Queen Henrietta Maria, the King’s

wife

MarylandSafe place for: Catholics:

With the: Act of Toleration

Provided religious freedom for all Christians

Main crop was cotton

Virginia

Virginia Crop: Tobacco

Bacon’s Rebellion was led by: Nathaniel Bacon

Because:

North and South Carolina

Most Northern settlers were: Poor tobacco farmers

Had ____ farms: Small

Southern settlers were: The eight English nobles

North and South Caroline

Crops of Carolina: Rice in North Indigo in South Lumber in North

Georgia

Founded by: James Oglethorpe

Founded as a place where ____ could live: Debtors:

People who owed money they could not pay back

Prison colony and a buffer from SpanishMain crop was rice

Cash Crops of the Southern Colonies

CottonTobaccoRiceIndigo

Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade

By 1700, _____ made up the majority of the population in GA and SC, because labor changed from indentured servitude to slavery.

Slaves

Indentured Servant: A person who agrees to work for someone

for a fixed amount of time (3-7 years) in return for their transportation costs, food, housing, and clothing

Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade

Slave: A person who is owned by someone

else and has absolutely no freedoms

During the: Middle Passage

_____% of Africans died 10

The Middle Passage

Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade

Slave Codes: Treated enslaved Africans not as human

beings but as property

Racism The belief that one race is superior to

another

The economy of the Southern colonies depends on: Slavery