1. Founding of the 13 Original Colonies
Birth of the New World
Founding of the 13 Original Colonies

2. Southern Colonies Virginia Goes 2 C Mary
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Maryland

3. Maryland Lord Baltimore - dreamed of safe place for Catholics
1632 – Main settlement of Baltimore (port city)
Proprietary colony north of Virginia
Passed Toleration Act - Religious Freedom and toleration
Planted tobacco & corn
Maryland law - “every person planting tobacco shall tend 2 acres of corn”

4. Virginia 1607 - Virginia Company of London To Chesapeake Bay-Jamestown
For trade and profit and England’s 1st permanent American colony
Difficult beginning years
Developed high grade tobacco=flourished
Slave Labor
Created House of Burgesses for more local control-1st representative assembly

5. Carolinas 1663 – 8 proprietors created proprietary colony
For profit from trade
Carolina = Charles’ Land in Latin
Founded Charles Town, later called Charleston
Wrote a constitution
Northern territory settled by VA farmers
Grew tobacco
Sold forest products, I.e. timber & tar
Southern more prosperous
Grew rice
Developed indigo-dye for textiles
Used slaves
Split in 1712

6. Founded 50 years after the other 12
Georgia
1735 – founded Savannah
James Oglethorpe
Military outpost to protect from Spanish
Charter for English debtors & poor people
Wanted “sober, industrial, & moral persons”
Religious freedom
Except Catholics
Banned slavery & rum
Founded 50 years after the other 12

7. 13 Colonies