1. Chapter 2 Day 2 Quote: “If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.” - James Oglethorpe
Objective: Explain the spread of the British colonies to the south of Virginia.
State Standards: Strand 1 Concept 3 PO 1, 2, 3

2. Maryland: Catholic Haven
Lord Baltimore, 1634
Religion
Indentured servant vs. slaves
Act of Toleration

3. The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
Caribbean Islands
Sugar
Natives vs. slaves
Barbados Slave Code

4. Colonizing the Carolinas
1670
Charles Town
Rice

5. The Emergence of North Carolina
“Squatters” vs. snobs
1712 divorce
Coastal natives

6. Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
Britain vs. Spain
James Oglethorpe 1733
Dumping ground
Christian, no Catholics

7. The Plantation Colonies
Tobacco – in the Chesapeake region (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina)
Rice and indigo – in the tidewater region of South Carolina and Georgia
Rural, tolerant