The Southern Colonies

Let’s brainstorm major

differences between the southern United States today and New Jersey. Think about visits you’ve made or things you’ve heard about southern culture and climate.

DO NOW:

As in other colonial regions, colonists in the south began pushing West from the shoreline to the edge of the Appalachian Mountains, onto Native American lands

Conflicts and skirmishes over land rights in Virginia arose between Colonists and Natives.

After several bloody clashes, colonists called on the Governor of Virginia to take action against the Natives.

The governor refused, and a colonist named Nathanial Bacon organized an angry group of hundreds of men who raided Indian villages, and then marched to Jamestown and burned the capital.

The uprising soon fell apart when Bacon died of dysentery shortly after.

Bacon’s Rebellion

Life In the Southern Colonies Religion

-Maryland- Sir George Calvert was a Catholic who wanted practice his religion freely in the New World.-Before the colony got under way, he died and his son, Lord Baltimore pushed on with the project.-Maryland passed an Act of Toleration, which allowed all Christians to worship freely.

-Unfortunately, this freedom did not extend to non-Christians.

Did Maryland’s Act of Toleration provide

true religious freedom? Make sure to explain and defend your

answer.

Stop and Think..

Each colony had a governor and an elected assembly

Virginia House of Burgesses- Male settlers were allowed to elect burgesses, or

representatives to the assembly

The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America

Government

Land/Climate Economy Hot climate Longer growing season Fertile soil.

Large plantations grew tobacco, rice, indigo, etc.

Southern colonies first enslaved Native Americans, but once Natives start dying off, they relied heavily on slaves imported from Africa.

On large plantations 20 to 100 slaves did most of the work.

Farther inland, closer to the Appalachian Mountains, the “backcountry” region had smaller farms and were likely to rely on their own supply.

Georgia was a colony started by James Oglethorpe,

and it would be a place for debtors. In England, debtors were often put in jail until they

paid off the debt. Oglethorpe saw Georgia as a land of opportunity for

people to get out of debt. Georgia also served as a buffer zone between the other English colonies, and Spanish Florida.

Georgia

To what extent did the

Southern Colonies practice democratic, American ideals? What about the colonies were Democratic? Undemocratic?

In Closing