colonies
Set up to buffer Spanish lands.
What is Georgia?
In charge of hundreds of workers, slaves indentured servants.
Who are planters?
Free white men who owned property
Who are voters?
Grown to make money.
What are Cash crops?
Protestants took over this Catholic safe haven.
What is Maryland?
Needed because plantations needed required a lot of labor.
Who are slaves?
Searched for a safe-haven for Catholics
Who is George Calvert?
Crops that grew well due to fertile soil & year round growing season.
What are Cotton, indigo, rice, cotton & sugar?
Wanted more political power so divided.
What is North Carolina?
Worked in exchange for passage to America.
Who are indentured servants?
Set up colony for poor and debtors
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Like a small city, contributed to the growth of slavery
What is a plantation?
Home to busy trading harbor.
What is South Carolina?
Split from English Church, needed a safe haven.
Who are Catholics?
Made laws for the colonies
Who are Colonial assemblies?
Main harbor for trade in Carolinas
What is Charlestown?
Home to the first permanent settlement, Jamestown.
What is Virginia?
non-Catholics who protested against church
Who are Protestants?
Appointed by the king, final say in all matters
Who are Colonial Governors?
Dividing line between the North & the South.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?