How are The Mayflower Compact New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses all related What are they examples of 1 Warm Up Colonial America 15871770 34 The Southern Colonies ID: 315869
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Warm Up
How are The Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses all related? What are they examples of?
1) Warm Up!Slide2
Colonial America: 1587-1770
3-4 The Southern ColoniesSlide3
Life in Virginia
Life different here than New England ColoniesFew towns b/c relied on rivers to ship goods
Ships sail up rivers bringing European goods right to plantationsTake tobacco from plantation for sale in EnglandFew Schools scattered populationMore concerned with making $$$- Kids worked!!!Establish Families not important- tough too!6x more men
High death rate-
marry several times
Kids raised by step-parents or orphaned
Virginia Company of London brings more women for them to start families
Believed important for colony to prosper
2) Compare and contrast!Slide4
Labor Problems
Land CheapEach person paying for passage received 50 acres of landLabor
Passage was expensivePeople would pay for others in exchange for laborIndentures: contracts guaranteeing to work as servant for them until debt paidKnown as indentured servants
at one point 75% of Virginians were under indenture
Also if U pay for others…
You kept their land (50 acres) until indenture paid off
Known as a
headright
Slavery1619- Dutch ship brings 1st
20 Africans
Now race part of determining status
Until 1690 indentured servants were preferredCost of slave higherSoon changes b/c logicOnce debt paid off indentures” become competition
3) Downside…
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) Economic Advantage?Slide5
Bacon’s Rebellion
1676- planters begin to eye good land guaranteed for Powhatan in 1646 treatyNathaniel Bacon raises lg. force to fight for it
Virginia Governor refuses to allow itBacon does it anywayForce massacres peaceful nativesGovernor declares them “rebels”Bacon’s force turns on gov’t
Sets fire to capital Jamestown and drives governor into exile
October 1676- Bacon falls ill and dies
Rebellion dies with him
Leads to changes, not more land
People had right to vote- now used itMore slave use
Trouble-making indentures not wanted anymoreWhen debt paid- become competitionSlaves always do what toldGet kids tooSoon completely dependent on slaves
5) How does this change things?Slide6
New Southern Colonies
1632- King Charles I gives land to Lord Baltimore George CalvertBut dies B4 receiving grant, son takes over and establishes
Founds Maryland as refuge for CatholicsProtestants welcomed tooToleration Act (1649)Guaranteed religious freedomSuccessful b/c learned from mistakes of JamestownTurned right to tobacco, but required 2 acres of corn for every 1 acre of tobacco
1663- King Charles II sets up
proprietary
colony (for making $$$) south of Virginia
Called “Carolina” meaning… Charles’ Land
Gave the colony to friends who helped him regain throne
Settlers begin arriving in 1670Found city Charles Town in 1680, later Charleston
Becomes busy trading center and port city
Social and political center
1719- settlers rebel b/c wanted greater role in gov’tAfter 10 yrs. of fighting…King steps in and separates into 2 colonies
North CarolinaSouth Carolina
MarylandCarolina (North & South)
* Virginia population over 750 * Tobacco exports over 1 million pounds * Prosperity encourages more colonies *
7) Proprietary Colony
6) Toleration Act?Slide7
Georgia
Last of Southern ColoniesNot founded until 1733James Oglethorpe and a few others start it as a colony for the poor
Debtors and poor use it as a place for new startFew comeb/c fear Spanish and Oglethorpe’s strict rulesNo liquorNo slaves1752- colony failing
Colonists not happy
Tired of fighting w/ them
Gives the crown control of colony
8) Set up and failed… why?Slide8
Essential Question-
Exit TicketWhy were most of the
Southern Colonies founded?
9) Exit TicketSlide9
Essential Question-
Exit TicketLabel the
five (5) Southern Colonies, and their date of settlement on the 13 Colonies Map.Color all five (5) Middle Colonies GREEN.Fill-in the reverse-side table with date, town, reason, and founder.
Map / Table