Bellringer Answers

1. Bellringer Answers • 1. Explain the 2 reasons for the founding of Georgia. • Haven for debtors • Buffer zone against the Spanish • 2. Explain the reason for the founding of Maryland. • Haven for Catholics • 3. What were the major crops and labor source in the southern colonies? • TOBACCO (some rice=Carolinas, some indigo) • Slavery • 4. In the south there was a big divide between the wealthy (elite) and the poor. Explain how each class (wealthy and poor) made a living. • Elite---rich white southerner slave owners who had all economic and political power/ made money from land, slaves, tobacco • Poor—indentured servants, slaves, and poor farmers who owned land and did subsistence farming • 5. Were the southern colonies tolerant of different religions? Explain. • tolerant---Maryland Act of Toleration • 6. What does the word tidewater mean? • Fertile land along the coast/ best land for growing tobacco (most elite lived here)

2. BELLRINGER answers • B 1. Majority were independent farmers who clashed with Native Americans • M 2. Good soil for cash crops like wheat, rye, barley (Breadbasket colonies) • S 3. Grew tobacco • M 4. Had a great variety of people (diverse) • B 5. Considered to be a wild place (although organized into clans) • NE 6. Puritans who strictly enforced the 10 commandments • NE 7. Had poor soil for farming (mostly subsistence farming) • S 8. Lived on isolated plantations (along the tidewater) • NE 9. Made money by fishing, whaling, logging, and shipbuilding • S 10. Mostly Anglican • NE 11. Majority lived in towns (congregations) with a common • B 12. Frontier living • S 13. Heavily relied on slave labor (more than any other region) • M 14. Large port cities—much trade • M 15. Small amount of slavery (mostly in cities)

3. Colonial Region Charts King Philip’s War—New England Bacon’s Rebellion--South 1670—many indentured servants had gained their freedom, and wanted land Elite pushed poor and servants into the western frontier Native American attacks occurred on the frontier Settlers complained that the Gov. was not protecting the frontier and treating them unfairly Nathaniel Bacon and a group of frontiersmen rebelled and attacked Jamestown and burnt the town. Bacon’s illness and death ended the rebellion 23 were executed—death by hanging House of Burgesses passes laws to restrict power of the Gov. Shows us---divide between rich and poor • Native Americans worried about increasing # of English who were taking their land and influence of European culture • 1675-1676 Native Americans rose up against the Puritans • Metacom (leader of Wampanoags was called King Philip) • 12 Puritan towns were destroyed/ 40 others were attacked • Puritans turned to Native American allies • 1676 Uprising collapses • Many Native Americans were sold into slavery • Native Americans lose land • Shows us—continued problems between whites and natives