SETTLING THE SOUTH Maryland- Georgia

Maryland  1634  Lord Baltimore  Catholic Haven  Act of Toleration (1649)

Carolinas  1670  Eight Nobles  Rice/ Indigo

North Carolina  Poor farmers  Pirates  Democratic  Irreligious

Georgia  1733  James Oglethorpe  Debtors/ Buffer Against Spanish

Characteristics of Southern Col.  Plantation Farming- Tobacco  Expansionistic  Aristocrats controlled most of land  Scattered settlements  Few cities  Few schools or different religions  Church of England dominant

Bacon’s Rebellion  Causes  Unhappy, poor farmers  Gov. Berkeley does not respond to Native Attacks  Rebellion  Nathaniel Bacon marches on and burns Jamestown  Declaration of the People of Va.  Effects  Rise of slavery