Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, NC, SC, and Georgia
Virginia
- Founded by John Smith in 1607
- Cash Crop- Tobacco
- Was Corporate but became Royal
- House of Burgess
- Population- At least 6,000
- Many immigrants were Germans
- Anglican
- Virginians not tolerant of non-Christian religions
- Line between religious and civil authority blurred
Maryland
- Founded by George Calvert in 1634
- Cash Crop- Tobacco
- Proprietary
- Self Governed
- Population- Somewhere between 26,500 to 31,000
- Immigrants primarily British
- Inhabited by The Nanticoke tribe, the Powhatan tribe, and The Susquehannock tribe
- Maryland Toleration act
NC
- Founded by the 8 Lord Proprietors in 1653
- Cash Crop- Naval Stores
- Proprietary
- No, they were a small community
- Population- 1,000 in 1660
- Germans and Scotch-Irish
- Algonquian tribes Machapunga, Cape Fear Indians, Catawba Indians, Cheraw Indians, Cherokee Indians, Chowanoc Indians, Coree Indians, or Coranine Indians, Eno Indians, Hatteras Indians, Keyauwee Indians, Machapunga Indians, Meherrin Indians, Moratok Indians. (Moratoc), Natchez Indians
- Neusiok Indians, Occaneechi Indians, Pamlico Indians Saponi Indians, Shakori Indians, Sara Indians, Cheraw Indians. Sissipahaw Indians Sugeree Indians, Tuscarora Indians, Tutelo Indians, Waccamaw Indians, Wateree Indians, Waxhaw Indians, Weapemeoc Indians, Woccon Indians, Yadkin Indians, Yeopim Indians , Weapemeoc Indians.
- Anglican
- Used to be joined with SC
SC
- Founded by the 8 Lord Proprietors in 1663
- Cash Crop- Rice and Indigo
- Proprietary
- No, they were a small community
- At least 29 distinct groups of Indians lived within South Carolina
- German and Scotch-Irish
- Santa Elena
- Anglican
- Used Indigo to color textile
Georgia
- Founded by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1732
- Cash Crop- Rice
- Royal
- Population- Over 9,000
- Immigrants to colonial Georgia came from a vast array of regions around the Atlantic basin
- Just a buffer colony for the Spanish
- Anglican