Classroom notes for Wednesday
Chapter 4 Lesson 3
The Southern Colonies
Mason-Dixon Line
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began to survey the 244 mile boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland
They laid stones on the border between the two colonies ( each stone was inscribed with letter P for Pennsylvania and M for Maryland)
This was also the boundary between Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies
Maryland
In 1632, Sir George Calvert persuaded King Charles I to grant him land for a colony in the Americas
He wanted a place for Roman Catholics to practice freely
He named the colony Maryland in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, the kings wife
Calvert died before his colony got underway, his son Lord Baltimore finished the project
Settling the colony
In the spring of 1634, 200 colonists landed along the upper Chesapeake Bay across from England’s first southern colony, Virginia
Lord Baltimore gave colonist a role in government by creating an elected assembly
Religious Toleration
Lord Baltimore welcomed Protestants as well as Catholics to the colony
In 1649, he asked the assembly to pass an Act of Toleration
This act provided religious freedom for all Christians ( this freedom did not extend to Jews)
Bacon’s Rebellion
In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led attacks against the Native Americans and burned Jamestown
Bacon was a planter and was upset with the government that had made his followers and himself take lands inland in the frontier
Settlers called on the governor to help stop the clashes between the Native Americans and the settlers, governor refused ( gov. was benefiting from the fur trade with the Native Americans)
The Carolinas
Northern part of the Carolinas mostly poor tobacco farmers
Southern part was made up of rich nobles which set up Charles town, later to become Charleston
Discovered that rice grew well in the marshy area, rice became a valuable crop
Settlers in southern Carolina discovered indigo
Slavery in the Carolinas
Carolina planters needed large numbers of workers to grow rice
Planters then turned to slaves from Africa
Northern Carolina had fewer slaves
Differences between the two areas led to division of the colony into North Carolina and South Carolina
Georgia
James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1732
He wanted the new colony to be a place where debtors could make a new start
Oglethorpe offered to pay for debtors and other poor people to travel to Georgia
In 1733, Oglethorpe set up the colony’s first settlement at Savannah
Growth of Slavery
Colonists passed laws that set out rules for slaves’ behavior and denied slaves their basic rights
These slave codes treated enslaved Africans not as human beings but as property
In 1688, Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania, became the first group of colonists to call for an end to slavery
Chapter 4 Lesson 2 and 3 Study questions and answers
MIDDLE COLONIES
11. How did the Dutch encourage farming in New Netherlands?
Dutch gave land to few rich families(patrons), had to bring over 50 farm families
12. Why did the Dutch lose New Netherlands, and what did the New Netherlands become? A) Peter Stuyvesant (Governor of New Netherlands) was mean and strict, colonists hated him. When the English moved into the New York harbor, the Dutch gave up without firing a shot B) New York (King Charles gave New Netherlands to his brother - the Duke of York
13. Who set up the colony of New Jersey? Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret st up a proprietary colony- eventually became a Royal colony
14. What were four beliefs of the Quakers that went beyond what the Protestants believed? a) men and women were equal in God’s sight b) refused to pay taxes to the Church of England c) War was wrong and didn’t serve in the army d) wrong to own slaves and no Sabbath day
15. What was Penn’s colony finally called, and what was the form of government that was used in the colony? Pennsylvania; Frame of Government
16. What city’s name means “brotherly love”? Philadelphia
17. What name was given to the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania in 1701? Delaware
18. Why were the Middle colonies called the Breadbasket colonies? exported so much grain
19. Where did the Great Wagon Road lead, and how was it traveled? a) to the backcountry (Appalachian Mts. ) b) traveled by trains of 20 to 100 wagons
20. How were the Middle colonies unlike the English colonies? because they were settled by colonists from many countries
SOUTHERN COLONIES
21. Who was given the right to settle Maryland? Why was it settled? Lord Baltimore - Catholic noble. Asked the king for a haven for Catholics
22. What was granted by the Maryland Act of Toleration? the Act gave religious freedom to all Christians, ( did not protect the rights of Jews )
23. Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 illustrated that settlers were determined to do what? to stay and push even deeper into Indian lands
24. How was the colony of Carolina started? 1663 - King Charles II gave 8 nobles tracts of land, called Carolinas (Latin for Charles)
25. Who established Georgia, the last colony? What type of people settled it? James Oglethorpe- the colony named in honor of the king. Set up by debtors. “buffer zone”
26. Give two ways life styles between the tidewater planters and backcountry people were different? Tidewater - plantation planters, wealthy. Not democratic backcountry - hardworking planters, democratic (believed everyone to be equal)
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