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TheSouthernColonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the colonies that make up the Southern Colonies? | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| Who were the men who developed the Mason-Dixon line, and why was it developed? | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon; it was developed to settle the dispute over the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland |
| What conditions in the Southern Colonies favored the development of a plantation economy? | The climate of the Southern Colonies was warm + humid, providing long growing seasons suitable for crops such as tobacco and rice; large farms required lots of workers, spurred development of slavery in colonies |
| What was the main cause of Bacon's Rebellion? | Wealthy planters took all land along coast, poorer colonists compelled to move inland to find own land to be able to vote + not have to work for wealthy planters; uprise of violence between Indians/colonists over land, governor won't help |
| Why didn't the governor want to help the frontier farmers in Virginia? | Governor wanted to avoid open war w/ Indians, since he benefited from their fur trade |
| Who was Nathaniel Bacon? | Organizer and leader of Bacon's Rebellion, which was a group of frontier farmers that attacked/killed Indians in 1675, governor declared this group to be rebels, group reacted by burning Jamestown; all ended when Bacon died |
| Who benefited from Maryland’s toleration? | Adult male Christians benefited from the Act of Toleration; gave them right to vote + hold offices |
| Why did Oglethorpe and the other founders establish the colony of Georgia? | Georgia bottled up the Spanish in Florida, and provided protection for English debtors from harsh jail conditions (Oglethorpe had a debtor friend that died while being kept in captivity) |
| How did people live in the backcountry? | Ppl often didn't legally own farmland, lived in 1-room shacks, both men and women worked the fields, families didn't have slaves, didn't care about rank, and thought the gov't only cared about wealthy plantation owners in Tidewater region. |
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