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Founding of the
Southern Colonies
(1607-1732)
MarylandVirginiaNorth CarolinaSouth Carolina(Carolinas were
divided in 1712)Georgia
Ethnic Origins of Colonists
How did the Southern ColoniesDiffer from the New England
and Middle Colonies?
• Culture and the economy focused on agriculture.
• Slave labor became essential to the Southern economy.
• Towns were fewer and smaller.
The Southern Colonies averaged
89% of the slave populationin Colonial America
Slave Populati
on in Southern Colonies
MIDDLE COLONIES
Virginia The Land of Cavaliers
• 1st settled at Jamestown
• Williamsburg became capital in 1699
• Large tobacco Plantations were established along the James, Rappahannock, York, and Potomac rivers by individuals known as Cavaliers.
• The largest and wealthiest of all the English Colonies
William Byrd II
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Virginia Plantation Typical of Southern
Colonies Plantations
Maryland• In 1632 King Charles I granted • Cecil Calvert-Lord
Baltimore a charter (permission) to found a colony for English Catholics. It was named for the queen Henrietta Maria.
• Maryland was a proprietary colony, this meant that “proprietors”, or owners controlled the government.
• In the 1640’s Protestants also begin moving into Maryland. This caused tension and led to Maryland’s Assembly passing the Toleration Act of 1649 that made it a crime to restrict any form of Christian worship
Lord Baltimore
King Charles I
Maryland’s FlagThe Calvert Family Crest
Maryland
Carolina “Land of Charles”• In 1663 Charles II gave land between
Virginia and Spanish Florida his father Charles I had tried to settle to supporters known as the “Eight Lords Proprietors” who had helped restore his family to power following the English Civil War in the 1640’s
• The Albemarle Sound settlements in the north were widely separated by those in the south such as Charleston founded in 1670.
• In 1712 the colony was divided• In 1729 the King bought the
Carolinas from the proprietors and North and South Carolina became “Royal Colonies”.
KING CHARLES II
Birth of Carolina 1663
Carolina Charter of 1663“Birth Certificate of the
Carolinas”
This Paper Told What the Proprietors Owned and What They Could Do With Carolina
Eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina
Lord Ashley Anthony Cooper
George Monk
Duke of Albemarle
William Berkley
Lord Granville
George Carteret
Charleston Founded in 1670
• Charleston became the center for rice and indigo production.
• Indigo was used as a purple dye.
Plantations in the Southern Colonies
Piracy Plagues Carolina Coast
Ockacroke Island
Queen Anne’s
Revenge
“BLACKBEARD”
Edward Teach
Bath, North Carolina’ Oldest Town
Saint Thomas Episcopal
Oldest Church in NC
Palmer-Marsh House
1705
Bath: NC’s Oldest Incorporated Town -1705
Georgia In 1732 King George II granted a charter to James Oglethorpe to start a colony for “Poor English Citizens.Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah.Oglethorpe outlawed slavery and the use of alcohol.Swiss, German, and Welsh Protestants were early settlers to Georgia. Jewish settlers moved to Savannah.The King took control of Georgia in 1752 and made slavery legal. Coastal Georgia became filled with rice plantations worked by thousands of slaves.
James Oglethorpe
Colonial Savannah
Georgia Founded By James Oglethorpe in 1732