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Topic Assessing the Southern Colonies
Contribution to American Freedoms.
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Virginian Democracy

• 1619 House of Burgesses
• Propertied men
• Colonial self-government
• King James I tries to limit this (Royal Colony in
  1624)

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Maryland (1634)

• Lord Baltimore
• The Catholic Colony
• Degree of religious freedom
• Economic Tobacco Plantations
• Influx of Protestant workers ? tension
• 1649 Act of Toleration

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The Carolinas (1670)

• Rice, sugar, Indian slaves
• Slavery in the Carolinas (role of Barbados slave
  system)
• Charleston port
• North Carolina
• Migrants from Va.
• egalitarianism
• Carolinas separated in 1712

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Georgia (1733)

• James Oglethorpe
• Debtors Colony
• Border between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas
  (A Buffer Colony)
• Salvation of both debtors and Indians
• Smallest population of all colonies

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Conclusion