1. Settling the Southern Colonies
C & E

2. Jamestown Joint-stock company Obtain charter from king
Allowed several investors to pool their $$$ in support for a colony in hopes of profit
Obtain charter from king
Prior settlement
Sir Walter Raleigh
“Lost Roanoke Island, NC
Croatoan only clue

3. Jamestown Virginia Company Joint-stock company Sent expedition to VA
Landed on peninsula in James River
Called settlement Jamestown
100 settlers
Prob’s
Wrong type of settlers
location

4. Jamestown Second Year John Smith seized control
Alliance w/ Pocohantas & Powhatan
Introduction of “brown gold” – tobacco
John Rolfe
Cash crop
Needed workers for the tobacco fields
Indentured servants
Dutch ship brought Africans – 1st treated as indentured servants
Later perpetual servitude

5. Jamestown
Government
1619 – est. House of Burgesses
1st representative body in New World
Colonist desire for land led to clashes w/ Native Americans
Became a royal colony

6. Jamestown Hostilities
Nathaniel Bacon – planter in western VA
Raised army to fight Natives
No gov’t support
Marched on Jamestown
Showed the growing power of the colony’s former indentured servants & small landowners

7. Carolinas Est by 7 proprietors to grow tobacco & cash crops
Eventually split to govern

8. Maryland Land grant to George Calvert – Lord Baltimore
Founded a colony as a haven for Catholics
Maryland Toleration Act
1st document to guarantee religious freedom to all (Christians)
Agricultural based economy

9. Georgia Founded by James Oglethorpe
Buffer btwn Carolinas & Spanish Florida
Inmates from debtors prisons
Last colony to be settled
Agricultural economy