IV.Southern Colonies A.Coming to America 1. Establishing Maryland a. Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore 1. wanted to establish a safe place for his fellow Catholics 2. Named colony Maryland a. Potomac is its made river b. To keep colonist from becoming to dependent on tobacco they had to grow corn

c. Baltimore (1729) was Maryland's port 2. Aristocrats and Farmers a. Aristocrats---wealthy and powerful class b. Lord Baltimore promised land to farmers acres to each male settler for his wife for each servant for children

c. The colony imported indentured servants and enslaved Africans 1. Indentured Servant a. in return for payment of their passage they agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time 3. The Mason Dixon Line a. Penn and Calvert Family argue over border of Pennsylvania and Maryland

b. Architects Mason and Dixon laid out the border for both colonies 4. Act of Toleration a. Lord Baltimore passed the Act of Toleration 1. granted Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely

B. Virginia Expands 1. Bacon’s Rebellion a. Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy planter from the western part of Virginia b. He complained that Easterners dominated the government c. Blamed government for not protecting westerners from Indian attacks d. Bacon’s burns down Jamestown

e. Shown that settlers were not willing to be restricted to the coast. Created a militia group to control Indians and open more land for settlement C. Settling the Carolinas city of Charles Town founded 2. John Locke wrote the constitution or plan of government

3. Northern and Southern Carolina a. North—grew tobacco didn’t have good harbors. Relied on Virginia’s ports b. South—more prosperous 1. Rice became #1 crop 2. Eliza Luca developed Indigo a. “Blue Gold” 4. Slave Labor in the Carolinas a. Rice growing required more labor b. By 1708 more then half the population in Carolinas are enslaved

D. Georgia 1. Oglethorpe’s Town a. James Oglethorpe created a colony for poor people and debtors b. Georgia could protect the rest of the colonies from Spanish Florida c. Savannah is the first town built d. Georgia had the highest non- English population e. At first you were not allowed rum or slaves