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- 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
- 4. • Williamsburg became the capital when Jamestown burned
- 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
- 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
- 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.