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2.5 The Southern Colonies: pgs. 92-100
Virginia(VA) ~ Maryland (MD) ~ North Carolina(NC) ~ South Carolina(SC) ~ Georgia(GA)
Read through pgs. 92-100. Answer the questions below. Most will need only BRIEF answers. DO NOT use
complete sentences. The questions go in order of the readings. Note the sections titles.
Virginia: These are topics we already covered!
 Virginia Company
 Jamestown
 John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe
 House of Burgesses; voting for representatives
 Indentured Servants; Bacon’s Rebellion
 Tobacco; Slave Labor
Maryland (“Lord Baltimore’s Colony”):
1. For which religious group was MD founded? (p. 92)
2. Unlike Jamestown where the Virginia Company was in charge,
Maryland was a proprietary colony where property owners controlled
the colony. How were the colonists involved in the government?
3. Which religious group did Lord Baltimore fear would deprive Catholics of their right to worship freely?
4. Define the Act of Toleration** of 1649:
**This was the first law supporting religions freedom in the English colonies!!
North and South Carolina (“The Carolinas Develop Differently”):
1. Who mainly settled in the northern part?
2. When did Carolina split into North and South?
3. Who set up the colony in the south?
4. What crop was discovered to grow well in the swampy lowlands of South Carolina, thanks to the help of
enslaved Africans?
5. ______________________, a plant used to make a valuable blue dye, was raised farther inland.
Georgia (“Georgia Offers a Second Chance”):
1. Who helped to found Georgia in 1732?
2. He and the other trustees hoped GA would help defend the other English colonies
from ___________________________ Florida.
3. Oglethorpe wanted GA to be a place for ____________________________, or people who owed money
they could not pay back, could make a fresh start.
4. What settlement did he begin in 1733?
5. What was originally forbidden in GA?
“Life in the Colonial Tidewater and Backcountry” (chart on p. 98)
These two regions developed differently, especially in terms of location, population, and economy which in turn
impacted the farming.
Tidewater
Backcountry
Location
_____________________ plains
_____________________________ Mountains and
their foothills
Population
____________________ settlers and
____________-Irish, poorer
enslaved ____________________
____________________ migrants,
________________________
Economy
Large plantations growing _________
Small farming and _________ trade
crops for export: tobacco, indigo, and
rice
“Human Rights Are Often Ignored” (p. 100)
1. Define slave codes (check the sentence before the bolded word):
2. In 1688, the ____________________________ of Germantown, PA, became the first group to speak out
against the evils of slavery.
Summary: Write one-two complete sentences to summarize what one would find in the Southern colonies.
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