SOCIAL STUDIES CHAPTER 7

• Location: North of Virginia along Chesapeake Bay
• Settlement: St. Mary's City
• Leader: George Calvert also know as Lord Baltimore
• Date: 1634
• Reason: Religious Freedom (Catholic religion) and to make money

• Location: South of South Carolina Colony
• Settlement: Savannah
• Founder: James Oglethrope
• Date: 1733
• Reason: Place for people not wanted in England-protection from Spain and France; Place for debtors

• Location: Next to Maryland Colony separted by the Chesapeake Bay and the Potamac River
• Settlement: Jamestown
• Founder: John Smith
• Date: 1607
• Reason: Trade

• Settlement: Albemarle
• Founder: Group of businessmen
• Date: 1653
• Reason: Trade
• Cash crop: Tabacco and corn
• It was hilly.

• Settlement: Charleston
• Founder: Group of businessmen
• Date: 1670
• Reason: Trade
• Cash crops: Rice
• Land was really wet.

The North Carolina Colony

It gave religious freedom to all Christians in the colony. It was passed by Maryland in 1649.

Location: Large area of land South of Virginia

Founders were eight English leaders called the Lords Proprietors.

They were split because they became hard to govern. It was large and the colonists would not follow laws that they did not like. It was split in 1712.

The Georgia Colony.

The South Carolina Colony.

The Maryland Colony.

The Virginia Colony.

The cause of conflicts between the Southern colonists and their Native American neighbors was that the settlers kept pushing the Native Americans off their lands. They would build their settlements on Native American lands and would destory their villages. This led to conflicts and wars. One such war was The Tuscarora War which lasted for several years and ended in about 950 Tuscarora being killed or captured and sold as slaves.

Enslaved Africans tried to deal with hardships by trying to keep their culture alive. They would tell stories and sing songs about Africa and many turned to the Christian religion to give them strength.

Tobacco

Rice

Tobacco, rice, and indigo

• One of ther first Africans to write and talk about life as an enslaved person.
• 12 yrs old when he was sold to an English sea captain
• Earned enough money from trading to buy his freedom
• Attended school in London and later worked as a sailor
• 1789 published his autobiography and spent the rest of life trying to convince people to end slavery

• Treatment depended on their owners.
• Enslaved Africans were often treated very poorly, most were beaten and abused
• Families were often broken apart and sold to different owners
• They were not able to speak out against slavery

Most worked on plantations.

Fort Mose (Florida)

The Seminole tribe (Native Americans). They became known as Black Seminoles.

Rice