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Southern Colonys
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Maryland
Founders
Family enterprise
Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Roman Catholic
Settlers
Catholics and Protestants seeking religious and political freedom.
Cecil Needed to attract both Protestant and Catholic settlers
Leonard arrived in Maryland in 1634 and built St. Marys city
Climate and Geography
Cold, rainy winters and hot, humid summers.
Low fertile land surrounding the chesapeake Bay.
Economy/Occupations
Farming (crops, beef, dairy,) lumber, shipping, fishing, iron mining
Religion
Calvert wanted to start a colony
Founded on religious freedon
Would be a prosperous life for the bold ones willing to take a risk
Catholics
Anglican Church, catholics were treated harshly
would always be outnumbered in the colony
Maryland worshiped freely and took part in colonys government alongside Protestants
Act concerning religion (left out Atheists and Jews)
Government
Self-governing
Cecil named his brother Leonard to be governor
Catholics in Maryland worshipped freely and took part in the colony's government alongside protestants.
Virginia
Founders
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company
Settlers
Poor people from England that tobacco planters brought in
Jamestown, first successful English settlement
English landowners, skilled laborers
Climate
Mild winters and hot, humid summers
Geography
Coastal lowlands: wooded mountains
Economy/ Occupations
economy of Virginia was based on tobacco
Farming (plantations) small independent farms
Many of Indians died from diseases from colonists
Africans were hard work workers use to farming
1700, Virginia had more than 16,000 enslaved Africans
Religion
Church of England
Government
Self-governing
1661, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law making African workers slaves for life
By 1700 Virginia had more than 16,000 enslaved Africans
Georgia
Settlers
Debtors from English prisons, Europeans seeking religious freedom and cheap land
wanted to farm large plantations and own slaves like the wealthy planters in neighboring colonies
Georgia became successful
Climate
Short, mild winters and long, hot, humid, summers
Geography
Wetlands and red -clay plains;
forested mountains
Economy/ Occupations
farming (plantations and independent farms), trade, skilled labor
settlers wanted to farm plantations and own slaves like wealthy planters in neighboring colonies
Religion
Various faiths
Protestants,Jews, and Catholics came to came to Georgia in search of religious freedom
Government
People who didnt pay their bills went to jail
James Oglethorpe
inspired wealthy English men to give money to establish colony
established laws against drinking alcohol and owning slaves
lost all his money
King George II
Liked James plan
Founders
Group of English men
Business plan was based on a grand and noble idea
wanted to help poor in England stay out of debtor's prison