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