The document provides information on the early colonies of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. It discusses the founding of Maryland by Lord Baltimore for Catholics in 1632. Virginia began with the Jamestown settlement in 1607 and grew tobacco. Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 was a response to conflicts with Native Americans. The Carolinas were formed from land grants in 1663 and later divided into North and South Carolina. Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732 to provide debtors a new start. Life differed between the tidewater coastal regions with large plantations and slave labor and the backcountry with smaller farms and self-sufficiency.

1. Chapter 4
Section 3
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2. Mason-Dixon Line
 Boundary line
between PA and MD
 Separated Middle
and Southern
Colonies
 Named after two
surveyors who
marked the 400 mile
boundary

3. Maryland
 Founded by Lord
Baltimore, the son
of Sir George
Calvert, a Roman
Catholic who lived
in Protestant
England.

4.  Charter granted in
1632
 Settled in 1634
 Baltimore gave large
land grants to
people with many
servants and family
members

5. Maryland
 Chesapeake Bay
area good for fish,
crabs, oysters
 Had a government
assembly
 Allowed
Protestants, as well
as Catholics

6.  ACT OF
TOLERATION-1649
allowed freedom of
religion only for all
Christians

7. Virginia
 Began with Jamestown
1607
 Tobacco was major
crop
 Westward movement
was causing problems
with Natives along the
frontier
 Colonists asked for
help, but got none
 Bacon’s Rebellion
followed

8. BACON’S REBELLION-
 1676 Nathaniel Bacon, a
planter, led raids against
Indians, regardless of
whether they were friendly
or not
 led followers to burn
Jamestown, the capital
 Bacon died; rebellion fell
apart
 23 of his followers hanged
 English settlers would
continue to move onto
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ure/bacons-rebellion.htm

9. Carolinasnobles
 1663- 8 English
received a grant from King
Charles I
 1712 North Carolina formed-
mostly poor farmers drifting
down from VA
 1719 South Carolina formed-
mostly wealthy planters
 Charlestown(Charleston)
became major city- Settlers from
Barbados; later were Germans,
Swiss. French Protestants, and
Spanish Jews
 Rice and Indigo major crops
 Enslaved Indians, then Africans
 African slaves outnumbered
white settlers by early 1700’s

10. Georgia
 James Oglethorpe
founded in 1732 as a
place where debtors
could start over.
 Started with
smaller farms and
no slavery
 After plantations
and slavery
allowed, colony
grew quickly.

11. Tidewater v. Backcountry Life
Tidewater
 Large plantations developed along the coast
and the rivers and creeks of the coastal
plain.
 Major crops were tobacco and rice.
 Slave labor was used (20-100 on average).
Africans brought farming skills and the
ability to make things out of gourds and
palmetto leaves.
 Shipping ports developed into large cities
like Charleston and Savannah.

12. Backcountry
 This was west of the
Tidewater area.
 The Great Wagon Road
took settlers to the base of
the Appalachians.
 People treated each other
equally
 There were small farms,
not plantations.
 They were self-sufficient
farms, with very few slaves,
growing food crops and
hunting,.
 Life was harder, simpler,
and more closely knit.