Johnny Battaglia
Social Studies P3
10/17/18

Chapter 3-4 OutLine

I: Virginia and Maryland
	A: The settlement of Jamestown marked the beginning of English colonization in North
	America
1.Virginia began to grow and the demand of workers were high.
2.Planters harvested tobacco which the colony depended on for money.
a.White landowners help this need by having enslaved africans farm for them.
B: The first group of 20 Africans arrived in 1619 aboard dutch trading vessel.
	1.In years to follow, many more shiploads of this human cargo would arrive in
	North America
	2.England also shipped criminals and prisoners of war to the colonies
	3. Lots of people came to to the colonies as Indentured-Servants.
			-Indentured Servants-Laborer who agrees to work without pay for
			a certain period of time in exchange for passages to America.
C. Founding Maryland
	1.Sir George Calvert wanted a safe place for his fellow catholics who faced
	Persecution in England.
	2.King of England, Charles I, gave Calvert a proprietary colony north of Virginia.
	3.Later after receiving grant of land Calvert dies and the land passes onto his son
	Cecilius
	4. He inherited the land and named it Maryland
	5.Cecilius sent his to brothers to find land.. They reached America in 1634
D. The formation of Maryland
	1.Cecilius gave large estates to English aristocrats and granted small piece of land
	to other settlers.
	2. As the number of plantations grew, so did the need of workers.
	3.The colony started to import indentured servants.
	4.Calvert and the Penn family argued for years about the boundary between
	Maryland and Virginia
	5. 1760s the land boundary was fixed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who
	mapped the boundary between the colonies.
	6.Religion was also another problem in Maryland. The Calvert’s welcomed
	protestants as well as catholics.
	7. To Protect the Catholics they established the Act of Toleration in 1649.
		a.The act ensured Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely
	8.In 1692 Maryland was now a royal.
		a.This mean the catholics faced the same restrictions as they did in
		England
	E. Rebellion in Virginia
		1.Virginia also started experiencing conflict when settlers started pushing back
		Native American land
		2.William Berkley pledged to the Native’s. In exchange for a large piece of land			he agreed to keep settlers pushing back their land.
		3.Berkley’s goal was to prevent a war outbreak with Native Americans
		4.Nathaniel Bacon was a young planter in west Virginia and opposed the
		colonial government because it was dominated by easterns.
		5.Some settlers settled in forbidden areas and blamed it on their government for
		not clearing the colony of Native Americans.
	F. Bacon Declares War
	1.Bacon’s army led attacks on the Native Americans and also marched over
	Jamestown to drive Berkley out, and burned the town to the ground.
	2.Bacon was on the verge of taking over the colonies. But Bacon became
	ill and sick and eventually died.
	3.With his death, the rebellion faded
	4. England recalled Berkley and sent troops to restore order.
	5.Bacon’s rebellion/chaos showed that government could not ignore the demands
	of its people.
II. The Carolinas and Georgia
	G. 1613 King Charles II created a proprietary colony south of Virginia called Carolina.
		1.The king gave the colony to 8 colony nobles.
		2.They set up estates and sold or rented land to settlers brought from England.
		3.John Locke, an English philosopher wrote a constitution.
				-Constitution-A list of fundamental laws to support a government.
		4.The constitution covered topics such as land divisions and social rank.
	H. Two Carolinas
		1.Carolina didn’t develop as planned. It split into Northern and Southern Carolina.
		2.Farmers from inland Virginia settled northern Carolina.
			a.Farmers grew tobacco and sold timber and tar.
		3.Northern Carolina lacked a good harbor, so farmers used Virginia's ports.
		4.Settlers in south Carolina took advantage of fertile land and the harbor at
		Charles Town.
		5.Two crops to came to dominate Carolina agriculture
			b.In the 1680s planters discovered that rice grew well in wet
			Coastal lowlands.
		6. Growing rice required much labor, and the demand for a slave labor rose.
		7.Another important crop was indigo
			c.A young english woman named Eliza Lucas developed this crop in the
			1740s.
		8. 1719 settlers in southern Carolina took control from proprietors.
		9. 1729 Carolina became two royal colonies-North Carolina and South Carolina.
	I.Georgia was founded in 1733, was the last British colony set up in America
		1.James Oglethorpe received a character from George II for a colony where
		Debtors and poor people could make a fresh start.
				-Debtors-Person or country that owes money
		2.The british also hoped Georgia would block any Spanish attacked on the
		colonies from Florida.
		3.Oglethorpe and his settlers built forts and town of Savannah to discourages
		such as attacks.
		4.George did not develop as Oglethorpe planned.
		5. People complained of Oglethorpe rules, especially the limits on land holding
		And the bans on slave labor and rum.
		6. Frustrated Oglethorpe finally agreed to their demands.
		7.Disappointed with the colony’s slow growth, he gave up and turned Georgia
		over.
		To the king in 1751.
		8.By that time, the British had been in the eastern North America for almost 150
		Years. They had lined the Atlantic coast with colonies.