The Southern Colonies Aim How were the southern
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The Southern Colonies Aim: How were the southern colonies different?
Mason Dixon Line • Divides Middle Colonies from Southern Colonies • Named after the men who surveyed the line • Charles Mason • Jeremiah Dixon
Lord Baltimore and Maryland • Lord Baltimore was Roman Catholic and wanted to build a colony where they could practice freely • Made colony available to Protestants as well as Catholics • Act of Toleration – provided religious freedom to all Christians
Bacon’s Rebellion • New comers to the area had to go onto Native land for farmland • Lead to conflict with Natives • 1676 Nathaniel Bacon lead raids on Natives friendly or not • Lead followers in burning down Jamestown • Revolt fell apart after Bacon’s sudden death • 23 of Bacon followers hung for part in rebellion
The Carolinas • Northern part poor tobacco farmers from Virginia (small farms) • Southern part wealthy and had larger farms • The growing of rice and indigo (plant used to make blue dye) lead to rise of slave labor
Georgia • Later allowed people to start large plantations and have slave labor. • Started by James Oglethrope • Colony where debtors, people who owe money, could get a fresh start
Two Ways of Living • Tidewater Plantation • Along Atlantic Coast • Large Plantations and slave labor • Plantation life revolved around the Great House • Grew tobacco and rice • Backcountry • Smaller fields of tobacco or garden crops • Largely self-sufficient • Few enslaved Africans
Slavery • The growing of tobacco and rice lead to increase need of slave labor • Middle Passage – Middle part of the slave trade – Was the trip the slave ships made from Africa to the Americas – Conditions was cramped and dirty • Slave Codes – Rules that denied slaves their basic rights – Slaves property not humans
