Good morning, Scholars!

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Good morning, Scholars!

• Create a new entry in your journal Southern
  Colonies

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Southern Colonies

• Geography and Climate
• Fertile soil
• Very long growing seasons
• This area was very warm and sunny

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Southern Colonies

• Economy (how they made their money)
• Plantation agriculture such as cotton, rice,
  tobacco, indigo, and sugar cane.
• Southern crops took many nutrients out of the
  soil that were hard to replace.
• Farms needed to be much larger to profitable
• This helped develop the plantation system caused
  people to be much more spread out across the
  Southern colonies than in the Middle and New
  England colonies.

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Southern Colonies

• Virginia
• Maryland
• North and South Carolina
• Georgia
• Using the atlas, label these colonies on the map.

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Virginia

• Founded for economic reasons
• John Smith
• Jamestown 1607
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• The first elected law-making body in the
  colonies.
• Provided local control over some issues so
  colonists didnt have to wait for Britain to
  decide the outcome of all things.
• Expanded the idea of representative government

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Maryland

• Founded for religious freedom
• Lord Baltimore
• The Catholics
• Maryland Toleration Acts
• A law granting religious freedom in hopes of
  attracting more settlers.

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North and South Carolina

• Founded for economic reasons

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Georgia

• Founded as a refuge for debtors
• a buffer between the Spanish and English
  colonies.
• James Oglethorp

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The Backcountry

• Area to the West of the colonies
• Settled by many different nationalities of
  people.
• The Appalachian Mountains restricted more people
  from moving further West.

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The Colonists and Trade

• Colonies traded in 3 ways
• Within the colonies (with each other)
• By directly exchanging goods back and forth with
  Europe.
• Various triangular trade routes.

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Triangular Trade
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Mercantilism

• Englands policy to control trade in the colonies
• Draw the following chart on your paper so that
  you understand the flow of the mercantilist
  policy of Britain

Raw Materials
Mother Country (Britain)
Colonies
Manufactured Goods
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Salutary Neglect

• British left the colonies on their own for many
  years.
• This neglect helped the colonies learn how to
  deal with their own problems issues instead of
  waiting for Britain to fix things for them.

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Representative Government

• A government BY the people FOR the people
• Enlightenment
• John Locke
• Believed people had rights that governments must
  protect
• Democracy/Republicanism
• English Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, and Glorious
  Revolution all help influence the idea of
  representative government in the colonies.

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Closing

• Look at the key for the thirteen colonies map.
  Label the map with the correct symbols for the
  Southern colonies.

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Brochure

• Include the following
• Why your colony was founded
• Who founded your colony
• The Geography and Climate of your colony
• How your colony made their money
• Create a catch phrase
• Everything's bigger in Texas!