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Title: Which colonies made up the Southern Colonies?


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Which colonies made up the Southern Colonies?
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Maryland
  • Founded by Lord Baltimore for Catholics
  • Act of Toleration- document that gave religious
    freedom to all Christians

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Virginia
  • Settled by the English
  • Bacons Rebellion- Nathaniel Bacon and his
    followers raided Indian villages
  • This showed that settlers were determined to push
    into Indian lands.

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Carolinas
  • Split because of differences into North and South
  • North Carolina had small farms
  • South Carolina had large plantations
  • rice was a major crop for both colonies

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Georgia
  • Founded by General James Oglethorpe
  • For debtors from England
  • A debtor is a person who owes money

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Middle Passage
  • Most southern colonies had slavery
  • The Middle Passage is the voyage of Africans to
    the colonies
  • Slaves had to endure very poor conditions on the
    voyage

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Slave Codes
  • Slave codes were laws that set out rules to
    control slaves behavior.

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Questions to answer
  • Who founded Maryland?
  • For what people was Maryland established?
  • What was the Act of Toleration?
  • What was the major difference between North and
    South Carolina?
  • What crop do they both produce?

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More Questions
  • Who was Georgia founded for?
  • What was Bacons Rebellion?
  • What was the Middle Passage?
  • What were slave codes?
  • Why do you think slave owners wanted slave codes?
  • Does might make right?

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