Notes - Southern colony

During the class period, we continued our discussion about the early North America Colony.

Virginia

• Very first English colony. 
• James town
• Settled by people from New England - Escape from the Puritan

Maryland

• Safe haven for Catholics who were not treated well in England
• George Calvert - First Lord in Baltimore. He was given a charter to settle in MD
• After he died - he pass his position to his son Cevil Calvert
• The Toleration Act - AKA the act concerning Religion - Write by George Calvert
• Good thing: It protect Catholics and other non-Angelic Christian
• Bad thing: Death sentence for anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus

North/South Carolina

• In 1663, the king Charles of England give 8 rich England lords the right to settle in South Virginia.
• Virginia - named after king Charles
• Popular - due to nice weather & good farm land
• In 1712 - Divided into two since it is too populous 
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Georgia 

• Last of 13 colonies
• Set up as home to debtors - people who joined for owing money
• 1733 - Georgia become a colony. 
• It is the furthest south of all the colonies