1. Virginia and African Americans
1619- Ship with stolen Africans arrives to Vir.
Not slaves, indentured servants…mainly
At first slaves, are too expensive
1660 racism becomes codified

2. Virginia and Self Government
Vir. Co. allows an assembly of settlers, known as House of Burgesses.
1624- King James I the first revokes charter, makes Virginia a royal colony.

3. Maryland 1634- founded by Lord Baltimore
Purpose- make money, more importantly create Catholic haven
Similar to Jamestown, tobacco and indentured servants

4. Maryland Protestants are getting closer to their lands.
Act of Toleration toleration to all Christians…death penalty for everybody else.
Successful in protecting minority Catholic population, but not very tolerant.

5. The West Indies Spain cannot secure territories
England now establishes herself as power of West Indies

6. West Indies Tobacco- cheap, easy to plant, profits within first year.
Sugar cane- requires LARGE amounts of land, then have to process cane into sugar.

7. West Indies Require large amounts of slave labor.
Soon blacks quickly outnumber whites
Barbados slave code- denies any rights to slaves, masters now have control

8. South Carolina The West Indies huge slave populations require food.
Charles II gives land grant to 8 close friends.
Adopt Barbados slave code
Even begin to capture Natives and sell them to slavery
Rice becomes staple crop
West African slaves know rice cultivation, and mostly immune to malaria.
Charles Town- becomes flourishing port

9. North Carolina Poor and religious dissenters become squatters of NC.
In-between two states ran by aristocracy
Reputation- harbor to pirates, and land of no religion
1712- NC breaks away from SC
Uniqueness- most democratic, most independent minded, and least aristocratic

10. Carolinas and Natives
1711- Tuscarora War- NC wins, aided from SC, sells remaining natives into slavery.
- Yamasee War- same fate
1720- majority of Native tribes have been dispersed

11. Georgia The buffer Colony
Protect Carolinas from Spanish (in Fla.) and French in Louisiana.
Founder- James Oglethorpe
Produce silk and wine
Haven for those imprisoned because of debt.
Determined to keep slavery out.
Savannah similar harbor to Charles Town
End of colonial era, least populated. Why?

12. Distinctive Characteristics of the South
Large plantations relying on staple crops
Plantations are spread out along state rivers.
Some religious toleration, Church of England is the dominant faith.
Soil butchery