THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

VocabularyProprietary Colony

Colony governed by a single owner

Royal ColonyColony ruled by the King’s appointed officials

Act of TolerationMaryland law that forbid religious persecution

TidewaterFlat land along the coast where they grew rice, tobacco, and indigo

VocabularyIndigo

Plant that produces a deep blue dye1st successful cash crop in the colonies

Cash CropsCrops raised to be sold for money

Indentured ServantOne who worked for a set time for free passage to the colonies

HeadrightLand grant given to one who paid his way to the colonies

The Southern ColoniesMarylandCarolinasGeorgiaVirginia

Maryland

FounderLord Baltimore

-Established the colony of Marylandfor persecuted Catholics

Georgia

FounderJames Oglethorpefounded in 1732 as a place where debtors could start over.

Started with smaller farms and no slaveryAfter plantations formed slavery was allowed and the colony grew quickly.the last of the original thirteen colonies. Challenges from Spain and France led the king to desire a buffer zone between the cash crops of the Carolinas and foreign enemies

Virginia

JamestownIn 1607 100 colonists were sent by the Virginia Company to establish a new settlement in the new worldThey travelled into the Chesapeake Bay and up the James River to find a location safe from the SpanishThey named it Jamestown in honor of King James IIt was the 1st successful English settlement in America

Founder

John Smith“There were never Englishmen left in a foreign country in such misery as we were in this newly discovered Virginia”Took command of Jamestown in 1608 after the winter had almost decimated the new settlementMotto

“Work or Starve”

House of BurgessesWas the 1st Representative Assembly in the coloniesEstablished in 1619, had the power the create laws and raise taxes

Notable MembersGeorge WashingtonThomas JeffersonPatrick Henry

Bacon’s Rebellion 1676The Rebellion was against Virginia Governor William Berkeley. Bacon was upset that he favored plantation owners and high taxesAlso, Indentured Servants were unable to find adequate land in the Tidewater region and were forced to fight Native Indians in the backcountryBacon demanded that Berkley help defend the frontier settlements. When he refused, Nathanial Bacon seized control of the House of Burgesses’ and burned Jamestown to the groundThe rebellion ended when Bacon became ill and died. 23 of Bacon’s captures were hanged and quartered