Southern Colonies chapter 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 George Calvert | aka Lord Baltimore, member of the Virginia Company, asked King Charles I for a charter for a new colony along Chesapeake Bay, north of Virginia |
| Cecilius Calvert | George Calvert's son, aka Lord Baltimore & owner of new colony, Maryland |
| constitution | a written plan of government |
| 1712 | Carolina colony splits into 2 new colonies, North & South Carolina |
| James Oglethorpe | wealthy English leader who came up with idea to send imprisoned English debtors to settle area south of South Carolina to defend land from French & Spanish. He & partners got charter for land &named colony Georgia after the King George II |
| backcountry | frontier land between Coastal Plain & Appalachian Mountains |
| debtor | people who owed money |
| 1632 | Lord Baltimore founds Maryland colony |
| 1733 | James Oglethorpe founds Georgia colony, last of 13 colonies |
| reason Maryland founded | refuge for Catholics & to make $ |
| Virginia | royal colony controlled by King |
| Carolina colony difficult to govern | charter divided among 8 English leaders or the Lords Proprietors, area was huge & colonists ignored laws they didn't like. North was hilly, South was flat, swampy |
| Southern colonies | Virginia, MAryland, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia |
| indentured servents | many settled in Maryland |
| Enslaved Africans | arrived with West Indies settlers in South Carolina |
| Conflicts with American Indians | Europeans displaced American Indian tribes that lived in the area that became the Southern Colonies |
| institutionalize | a part of life |
| planter | plantation owners |
| overseer | people hired by plantation owners to watch over field slaves as they worked |
| Anthony Johnson | former slave who bought land in Virginia in 1640's |
| Spanish Florida | Place where runaway slaves found help from Seminole Indians |
| Fort Mose | 1n 1738, Spanish governor set up this town for free Africans |
| 1619 | first Africans arrive in Virginia |
| 1750 | about 200,000 slaves live in Southern Colonies |
| 1729 | Baltimore, Maryland founded |
| 1740's | Charles Town, South Carolina exports 30 million lbs of rice/year |
| indigo | important cash crop of South Carolina, plant was used to make blue dye |
| interdependence | depending on others for goods or services |
| broker | pesron who is paid to buy & sell for someone else |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney | developed indigo plant in South Carolina after 3 years of experiments, became important cash crop |
| Baltimore, Maryland | busy port exporting grain & tobaccomajor center for shipbuilding |
| Wilmington, North carolina | importing shipping center for forest products |
| Reaction of enslaved | resisted slavery, attempted to escape, preserved culture by telling stories about Africa & singing African songs |
| Reason for few schools | far distances between plantations |
| tobacco | cash crop of Maryland, Virginia & North Carolina |
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