Southern Colonies

Chapter 4

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Mason-Dixon Line

• Used the stars to calculate the path along a constant latitude line.

• Each stone weighed between 300-600 lbs

• Drug them behind a wagon to place them

• Took 5 years

• Established because of a dispute between Calvert and Penn

Maryland and Virginia

• Indentured Servants- people who in exchange for passage to America would

agree to work for free for a determined period of time for no pay

• Act of Toleration- granted religious freedom in Maryland.

Virginia

• Bacon’s Rebellion

– William Berkley promised Natives, that settlers would not move off the
agreed plot of land the Natives gave them.

– Bacon did not like the agreement, he gathered some settlers and
attacked Natives and drove Berkley into exile

– Showed expansion was inevitable

Carolinas & Georgia

• Carolinas

– Carolina was a Proprietary Colony

– King Charles used it as a reward to those that helped him regain his
throne after the Glorious Revolution

– John Locke wrote a constitution

– Carolina eventually split into a northern and southern colony

• Georgia
 – James Oglethorpe

– Last English colony established

– Set up for the poor and those that owed money (debtors)

France and Spain in N. America

• La Salle, a French explorer, claimed a plot of land where the Mississippi R met
the Gulf of Mexico and called it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV of France.
1718 New Orleans is settled

• France used tenant farmers- farmers that agreed to work a certain number of
days a year for the lord of the land

• Unlike the English, the French had a good relationship with the Natives.

• They did not try to change their religion or customs nor did they push them of
their land

Spain

• Already controlled most of Mexico while rest of Europe was settling East
Coast of America.

• 1609/1610 Spain settles New Mexico and Santa Fe is established

• Most exploring and settling was done by missionaries looking for converts

• By 1769 Spain has a string of missions along the west coast