Southern Colonies
Gold
What city was selected for the settlement of Maryland?
St. Mary's
The first enslaved Africans were brought to where?
Jamestown
Why was St. Mary's selected for the settlement of Maryland?
Good for fishing, close to water for imports and exports, had lumber for building
Who established a new breed of tobacco?
John Rolfe
Why was Bacons Rebellion started?
Lack of good land and Indian attacks
What was the other branch of the Virginia Company of London? The Plymouth Company and the ?
London Company
Why did they choose Jamestown to settle?
Rivers for defense
What was the name for the French who settled in these colonies?
Huguenots
Who founded the colony of Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
Who saved the Jamestown Colony?
John Smith
What religion were Native Americans being converted to?
Christianity
Who was granted a charter to start his only colony in Maryland?
Lord Baltimore
What important crop was grown and used to dye clothes?
Indigo
The economy in the Carolinas were based on what type of crop?
Cash crops
What system was used to give land and used as an incentive and encourage people to settle in the Southern Colonies?
Headright System
What colony was used as a buffer between British and Spanish Florida?
Georgia
The royal __________ company has a monopoly on slave trade.
African
Who is the name of the man who started a rebellion and burned Jamestown?
Nathaniel Bacon
Why did more people turn to slaves rather than indentured servants?
cheaper, did work faster, Bacon's rebellion led to distrust among servants
Name the five Southern Colonies
North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland
What two diseases killed a majority of colonists in the Southern Colonies?
Malaria and Yellow Fever
What was the dominant religion in the Carolinas?
What colony was used for criminals to work off their debt?
Georgia
Who crushed Bacon's Rebellion?
Governor Berkeley