BIRTH OF THE NEW WORLD Founding of the

BIRTH OF THE NEW WORLD Founding of the 13 Original Colonies

Southern Colonies Virginia Goes 2 C Mary Virginia Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Maryland

Maryland Lord Baltimore - dreamed of safe place for Catholics § 1632 – Main settlement of Baltimore (port city) Proprietary colony north of Virginia Passed Toleration Act - Religious Freedom and toleration Planted tobacco & corn Maryland law - “every person planting tobacco shall tend 2 acres of corn”

Virginia 1607 - Virginia Company of London To Chesapeake Bay-Jamestown For trade and profit and England’s 1 st permanent American colony Difficult beginning years Developed high grade tobacco=flourished Slave Labor Created House of Burgesses for more local control-1 st representative assembly

Carolinas 1663 – 8 proprietors created proprietary colony For profit from trade Grew tobacco Sold forest products, I. e. timber & tar Carolina = Charles’ Land in Latin Founded Charles Town, later called Charleston Northern territory settled by VA farmers Southern more prosperous Grew rice Developed indigo-dye for textiles Wrote a constitution Used slaves Split in 1712

Georgia 1735 – founded Savannah James Oglethorpe Military outpost to protect from Spanish Charter for English debtors & poor people Wanted “sober, industrial, & moral persons” Religious freedom Except Catholics Banned slavery & rum Founded 50 years after the other 12

13 Colonies