1. Aim: How were the southern colonies different?

2. Mason Dixon Line Divides Middle Colonies from Southern Colonies
Named after the men who surveyed the line
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dixon

3. Lord Baltimore and Maryland
Lord Baltimore was Roman Catholic and wanted to build a colony where they could practice freely
Made colony available to Protestants as well as Catholics
Act of Toleration – provided religious freedom to all Christians

4. Bacon’s Rebellion
New comers to the area had to go onto Native land for farmland
Lead to conflict with Natives
1676 Nathaniel Bacon lead raids on Natives friendly or not
Lead followers in burning down Jamestown
Revolt fell apart after Bacon’s sudden death
23 of Bacon followers hung for part in rebellion

5. The Carolinas
Northern part poor tobacco farmers from Virginia (small farms)
Southern part wealthy and had larger farms
The growing of rice and indigo (plant used to make blue dye) lead to rise of slave labor

6. Georgia
Later allowed people to start large plantations and have slave labor.
Started by James Oglethrope
Colony where debtors, people who owe money, could get a fresh start

7. Two Ways of Living Tidewater Plantation Along Atlantic Coast
Large Plantations and slave labor
Plantation life revolved around the Great House
Grew tobacco and rice
Backcountry
Smaller fields of tobacco or garden crops
Largely self-sufficient
Few enslaved Africans

8. Slavery
The growing of tobacco and rice lead to increase need of slave labor
Middle Passage
Middle part of the slave trade
Was the trip the slave ships made from Africa to the Americas
Conditions was cramped and dirty
Slave Codes
Rules that denied slaves their basic rights
Slaves property not humans