Maryland and Georgia colonies

Maryland and Georgia colonies

Poll

Do you know a lot about the Southern Colonies?

• yes

• no

• a little

Multiple Choice

The Southern Colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. This region's geography favored cash crops. Rich men came to this region from Great Britain. They grew cash crops such as tobacco and rice on their plantations.

What are examples of cash crops?

• tobacco and rice

• corn and wheat

• apples and potatoes

Multiple Choice

What is a plantation?

• no idea

• a very large farm

• a big plant

Multiple Choice

Plantations needed many workers. At first, landowners used American Indians and indentured servants to plant and harvest plantation crops. Soon, Southern landowners began to replace these workers with enslaved Africans.

Who did most of the work on plantations?

• landowners (people who owned the land)

• Native Americans

• enslaved Africans

Multiple Choice

What is a plantation?

• no idea

• a very large farm

• a big plant

Maryland

Multiple Choice

Cecilius Calvert, an English nobleman also known as Lord Baltimore, started the colony of Maryland in 1634. He hoped to make money from the colony. Lord Baltimore also wanted to provide a safe place for Catholics like himself. In England and in some of the colonies, Catholics were treated harshly.

Who started the colony of Maryland?

• Cecilius Calvert

• the king of England

• John Winthrop

• Mary

Multiple Select

Cecilius Calvert, an English nobleman also known as Lord Baltimore, started the colony of Maryland in 1634. He hoped to make money from the colony. Lord Baltimore also wanted to provide a safe place for Catholics like himself. In England and in some of the colonies, Catholics were treated harshly.

Why did he found the colony?

• for money

• for a safe place for Catholics

• for fun

• for the Quakers

Multiple Choice

Maryland's geography was well suited for planting and selling tobacco. This crop grew well in the hot, steamy summers. Chesapeake Bay was a route to the ocean for most settlers, and farmers near the bay could ship their crops to England and other places. Unfortunately, the climate also encouraged mosquitoes that spread deadly diseases.

What was the climate like?

• hot and humid

• cold and snowy

• hot and dry

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Maryland's geography was well suited for planting and selling tobacco. This crop grew well in the hot, steamy summers. Chesapeake Bay was a route to the ocean for most settlers, and farmers near the bay could ship their crops to England and other places. Unfortunately, the climate also encouraged mosquitoes that spread deadly diseases.

The problem with the climate was that there were a lot of _______.

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Maryland's geography was well suited for planting and selling tobacco. This crop grew well in the hot, steamy summers. Chesapeake Bay was a route to the ocean for most settlers, and farmers near the bay could ship their crops to England and other places. Unfortunately, the climate also encouraged mosquitoes that spread deadly diseases.

Maryland's climate was great for growing _______.

Multiple Choice

There were many kinds of jobs in the colony. Most colonists worked on small farms, growing tobacco, corn, wheat, and fruit trees. Some farmers raised cattle for beef and milk. Other industries included lumbering, shipping, and fishing. Some people made money by buying and selling slaves. Some wealthy families owned tobacco plantations, where enslaved Africans and indentured servants did most of the work.

Which jobs were important for the Maryland economy?

• farming, lumber, slave trading

• farming, fishing, lumber

• lumber, farming, whaling

• trading, lumber, fishing

Multiple Choice

Most colonists had little power in Maryland's government.Lord Baltimore made his brother, Leonard Calvert, the governor of the colony. Calvert made the decisions until 1637, when he allowed the colony to have an assembly. For the most part, only white men with property voted for members of the assembly. Over time, more non-Catholics moved to the colony.Calvert had the assembly pass a law to protect Catholics' right to vote and to serve in the government. These rights were denied to Catholics in some of the other colonies.

Who could vote in Maryland?

• everyone

• all men

• men with property but no Catholics

• men with property including Catholics

Georgia!

Multiple Choice

The Southern Colony of Georgia was the last colony founded by Great Britain, and it was started in 1732 for two main reasons. First, the British government wanted to keep Spanish troops from moving north from Florida. In 1742, Spanish troops launched an attack against British troops in Georgia. Though the attack was not successful, British and Spanish troops continued to fight along the border for the next few years.

What was the first reason to found Georgia?

• To stop the Spanish army from moving North

• To make friends with the Spanish.

• To get closer to Disneyland in Florida

Multiple Choice

Second, some wealthy British men wanted to help poor people avoid going to debtors' prison. A debtor is someone who owes something to another person and at that time, these people went to jail if they could not pay off their bills.

What is a debtor?

• someone who owes money

• someone who dances

• someone with a lot of money

Poll

Sending debtors to Georgia rather than to jail gave them a new start because they could now earn a living in the new colony. When they arrived in Georgia, each debtor received fifty acres of land to farm. However, debtors could not sell the land that they were given.

If you were a debtor, would you rather...

• go to jail

• go to Georgia

Multiple Choice

Take a guess...did they have slavery in Georgia?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Take a guess, what was the climate like in Georgia?

• hot and humid

• hot and dry

• cold

Poll

Which colony is your favorite so far?

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania

• Maryland

• Georgia

Open Ended

If you were a colonists, where would you choose to live and why?

I would live in ____ because____

Poll

Do you know a lot about the Southern Colonies?

• yes

• no

• a little

• not that much, but more than I did before