8th Grade

Today in class we finished up Chapter 4 Section 1 notes and summaries. We talked about organizing our binders for History. I handed out a map of the original 13 Colonies and a "cheat sheet" for the Colonies with Motivation, settlement information and Economic strategies.

You need to have 4-2 notes in you notebook for Wednesday and 4-3 for Friday. They are both posted and ready to go.

Thanks
Mr. C

Southern Colonies
Chapter 4
Section3
Mason-Dixon Line
• Used the stars to calculate the path along a constant latitude line.
• Each stone weighed between 300-600 lbs
• Drug them behind a wagon to place them
• Took 5 years
• Established because of a dispute between Calvert and Penn
Maryland & Virginia
• Indentured Servants- people who in exchange for passage to America would agree to work for free for a determined period of time for no pay
• Act of Toleration- granted religious freedom in Maryland.
Virginia
• Bacon’s Rebellion
– William Berkley promised Natives, that settlers would not move off the agreed plot of land the Natives gave them.
– Bacon did not like the agreement, he gathered some settlers and attacked Natives and drove Berkley into exile
– Showed expansion was inevitable
Carolinas & Georgia
• Carolinas
– Carolina was a Proprietary Colony
– King Charles used it as a reward to those that helped him regain his throne after the Glorious Revolution
– John Locke wrote a constitution
– Carolina eventually split into a northern and southern colony
• Georgia
– James Oglethorpe
– Last English colony established
– Set up for the poor and those that owed money (debtors)
France and Spain in N. America
• La Salle, a French explorer, claimed a plot of land where the Mississippi R met the Gulf of Mexico and called it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV of France. 1718 New Orleans is settled
• France used tenant farmers- farmers that agreed to work a certain number of days a year for the lord of the land
• Unlike the English, the French had a good relationship with the Natives.
• They did not try to change their religion or customs nor did they push them of their land
Spain
• Already controlled most of Mexico while rest of Europe was settling East Coast of America.
• 1609/1610 Spain settles New Mexico and Santa Fe is established
• Most exploring and settling was done by missionaries looking for converts
• By 1769 Spain has a string of missions along the west coast