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Settling the South

Settling the South. US History: Mrs. Lacks. Exploring Virginia. 1606: Bartholomew Gosnold’s joint-stock company, known as the Virginia Company of London , received a charter from King James I of England for a settlement in the New World. . Susan Constant.

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Settling the South

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  1. Settling the South US History: Mrs. Lacks

  2. Exploring Virginia • 1606: Bartholomew Gosnold’s joint-stock company, known as the Virginia Company of London,received a charter from King James I of England for a settlement in the New World. 

  3. Susan Constant • 104 Settlers (men & boys) • Led by Captain Christopher Newport • Primary purpose: economic (sought riches in the new world) Discovery Godspeed

  4. Exploring Virginia (Apr 1607) Possible 2nd Settlement, Hog Island Jamestown First Landing, Cape Henry (VA Beach)

  5. Jamestown

  6. Jamestown

  7. Jamestown • Life was more than difficult • Settlers faced lack of food, rampant disease, and Indian attacks • they fought amongst each other for political power, and work load • Didn’t know the landscape of Virginia • Not educated in how to plant crops here

  8. Starving Time • Winter of 1609-10 • Disease, famine, and Indian attacks led to the deaths of most (only 60 of 500 survived) • Crazed for food, some settlers were reduced to cannibalism

  9. Capt John Smith • One of original 7 councilmen at Jamestown • saved Jamestown by making friends with the Powhatan • “He who will not work, will not eat” • Many myths

  10. Powhatan Village

  11. John Smith’s drawing of Chief Powhatan

  12. John Rolfe • Tobacco seed • Save Jamestown (gave it a cash crop) • Married Pocahontas

  13. John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas (1840) 1616 Engraving

  14. Tobacco • Was planted on every available acre of VA land • Londoners soon went mad over it • Jamestown survives, and colonists start moving out to establish farms

  15. Indentured Servitude • First slaves in the New World • Poor Englishmen & women • Most were never freed, or died when freedom came HeadrightSystem Indentured Contract, 1746

  16. 1619: A Pivotal Year • 1. Virginia House of Burgesses established • 2. First women to colony • 3. First slaves to North America

  17. African Slavery • Existed in Africa since the beginning of time • Started with Arabs (Med Sea & Red Sea) • Atlantic trade started by Dutch, continued by Spanish • African kings traded people for goods (as they did with other African nations) • Imported to New England • Slow to catch on in colonies

  18. 17th C. Virginia Population

  19. The Atlantic Slave Trade

  20. Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676 Nathaniel Bacon GovernorWilliam Berkeley

  21. Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676 • Western farmers • Problems with Natives in western VA • Upset they weren’t adequately represented in the House of Burgesses • Governor Berkeley wouldn’t help • Bacon & other farmers attacked Williamsburg • Berkeley fled to ESVA • Williamsburg burned • 1st colonial rebellion against government

  22. The Rest of the South…

  23. Maryland • 4th English colony; Land granted to Lord Baltimore by King Charles I in 1632 • Plantation colony, considered southern • Haven for Catholics

  24. St. Mary’s City, MD (1634) Lord Baltimore

  25. Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 • What about it? • Supported by the Catholics in MD. • Guaranteed toleration to all CHRISTIANS. • Decreed death to those who denied the divinity of Jesus [like Jews, atheists, etc.]. • In one way, it was less tolerant than before the law was passed!!

  26. Settling the lower South

  27. Created in 1670 • Named after King Charles I • North Carolina split off in 1712 – known for its defiance (colony of stricken outcasts and religious dissenters; helped pirates)

  28. Carolina

  29. Rice & Indigo Exportsfrom SC & GA: 1698-1775

  30. Georgia: The Buffer Colony

  31. Georgia • Founded in 1733 (126 yrs after VA), named for King George II • The last of the 13 colonies • Protected the valuable Carolinas from the Indians, Spaniards, and French • First produced silk and wine; had no tolerance for slavery (stalled plantation economy)

  32. The Port City of Savannah

  33. The American South • Tobacco and rice were biggest cash crops • Slow to have cities, churches, and schools due to isolation of plantations and farms • Mostly supported the Church of England (Anglican) • Had continued conflicts with Native Americans

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