1. The Southern Colonies Chapter 5 Section 4 pg 92-95
North Carolina in the American Experience

2. Chapter 5 Section 4 The Southern Colonies23
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Objectives:
Examine why Maryland was founded and why Carolina was split into North Carolina and South Carolina.
Describe the early history of Georgia and the plantations of Maryland and Virginia.
Examine how the economies of North and South Carolina differed.
Compare and contrast the lives of wealthy planters and slaves.
(Start Cornell notes here)

3. Warm up
Look at the map on page 93. What were the most important cities in the Southern Colonies by 1763?
Jamestown, VA; New Bern, NC; Charles town, SC; and Savannah, GA

4. Setting the Stage 1630s – Maryland was started.
TB 92
1630s – Maryland was started.
Middle 1660s settlement spread to the Carolinas.

5. Lord Baltimore George Calvert Roman Catholic Friend of King Charles I
TB 92
George Calvert
Roman Catholic
Friend of King Charles I
Given land along the Chesapeake Bay, north of Virginia.
George Calvert dies leaving the land to his heir, Cecil.
1634 – Maryland is established and named for an English queen. Hmmm, I wonder if she needed a band-aid????

6. Caro lina
TB 92
1663 – Land is given to 8 Lords Proprietors by Charles II for helping to restore him to his throne.
The land was called Carolina after the Latin name for Charles which is Carolus.
LP hoped to make $$ by selling and renting property. Failed
1712 Became 2 colonies due to differences.
South more prosperous

7. Last but not least!!!! TB 93 Georgia Trustees start Georgia
Two goals –
Provide debtors with a place with which to build a new life
Keep the Spanish in Florida from settling farther North
First Leader
James Oglethorpe + 30 families start Savannah
Slow growth
War with Spanish and Native Americans
First farms failed
Only own 50 acres of land
Slavery forbidden
Settlers had to do a certain type of farming
Soil not right for that kind of farming
1752 – charter expires; GA becomes a royal colony.

8. What was life like in the South?
TB 94
Plantations
Maryland (MD) and Virginia (VA)
Many grew tobacco
Chesapeake Bay and harbors
Settlers to MD and VA sailed through CPB
Harbors = ships could load and offload goods.

9. NC and SC… Why so different?
TB 94-95 NC
Few Rivers or harbors along the Coastal Plains were deep enough for ships
Few good harbors
Small on the western part of the plain.
Subsistence farming SC
Coastal Plain is swampy
Warm and moist area good for growing rice
Built rice plantations
Larger than tobacco plantation
1700s, people began raising indigo
plant that grew well in high, dry ground.

10. Pas s age
I began in 1500
I became necessary as the result of the increase of Spanish settlement.
I was a difficult journey across the Atlantic
What am I?

11. Life on the plantation Plantation Owners Slaves Lived in comfort
Visited Charles town and other cities
Women dressed in London fashion
Part of the triangular trade
Misery
Sold to planters
Didn’t have freedom
Brought in by New Englanders
Did back-breaking labor
Lived in poor conditions