Settling the Southern Colonies C & E
Jamestown Joint-stock company Obtain charter from king Allowed several investors to pool their $$$ in support for a colony in hopes of profit Obtain charter from king Prior settlement Sir Walter Raleigh “Lost Colony” @ Roanoke Island, NC Croatoan only clue
Jamestown Virginia Company Joint-stock company Sent expedition to VA 1607 - Landed on peninsula in James River Called settlement Jamestown 100 settlers Prob’s Wrong type of settlers location
Jamestown Second Year John Smith seized control Alliance w/ Pocohantas & Powhatan Introduction of “brown gold” – tobacco John Rolfe Cash crop Needed workers for the tobacco fields Indentured servants Dutch ship brought Africans – 1st treated as indentured servants Later perpetual servitude
Jamestown Government 1619 – est. House of Burgesses 1st representative body in New World Colonist desire for land led to clashes w/ Native Americans Became a royal colony
Jamestown Hostilities Nathaniel Bacon – planter in western VA Raised army to fight Natives No gov’t support Marched on Jamestown Showed the growing power of the colony’s former indentured servants & small landowners
Carolinas Est by 7 proprietors to grow tobacco & cash crops Eventually split to govern
Maryland Land grant to George Calvert – Lord Baltimore Founded a colony as a haven for Catholics Maryland Toleration Act 1st document to guarantee religious freedom to all (Christians) Agricultural based economy
Georgia Founded by James Oglethorpe Buffer btwn Carolinas & Spanish Florida Inmates from debtors prisons Last colony to be settled Agricultural economy