3. • It began as a charter colony, but the king took
it over due to the treatment of Indians
• Tobacco was the cash crop and very valuable
• John Rolfe cultivated Tobacco and sold it in
England
• It was the center of Anglicanism in the New
World
• Other religions were fined
7. • The land was given to George Calvert (Lord
Baltimore) by the King
• He wanted a place safe for Roman Catholics
• The king names the area Maryland after the
queen Henrietta Maria
8. • George Calvert died before he could go to
New World
• His son, Cecilius Calvert led the settlers to the
New World
9. • Protestants began to arrive in Maryland and
outnumbered the Catholics
• Maryland passed the Act of Toleration which
guaranteed religious freedom to all who
believed in the Trinity
10.
11. • After a civil war in England, King Charles II
wanted to award those who remained loyal.
• King Charles II gave 8 noblemen a tract of land
that they named Carolina
• Kings name was Carolus in Latin
• The land was divided about 50 years later into
North and South Carolina
12. • North Carolina grew
Tobacco
• South Carolina grew
rice and indigo
13.
14. Two reasons for the founding of
Georgia
1. Served as a
buffer
between the
Carolinas and
the Spanish
Florida
2. Served as a
new home for
debtors
15. • James Oglethorpe was
unhappy with the way
debtors were treated
in England
• Also wanted to
disallow slavery
• No drinking of hard
liquor
16. • Only a few debtors traveled to America
• Other settlers came, but hated the no slave
and no drinking rules
• Became a royal colony and started to look like
the others.
