Founding of the 13 Original Colonies Birth of the New World Founding of the 13 Original Colonies

Southern Colonies Virginia Goes 2 C Mary 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 1st permanent American colony Difficult beginning years Developed high grade tobacco=flourished Slave Labor Created House of Burgesses for more local control-1st representative assembly

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

Founded 50 years after the other 12 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