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Groetz Chapter 3
Chapter 3 flashcards
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History
8th Grade
10/07/2011

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Virginia
Definition

-founded in 1607

-first colony to be established in southern colonies

-grew tobacco

-first settlement was Jamestown

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Maryland
Definition

-propyrater colony became a Catholic colony

-second colony to be established in the southern colonies(1634)

-Mary City turned into Tobacco City

-In 1649 King Charles 11 was beheaded

-Lord Baltimore was founder

 

 

 

 

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North Carolina
Definition

-1690s colonists started exporting rice

They learned how to cultivate this crop from enslaved Africans

-Hugenots, or French Protestants ;

Many Hugenots fled France to seek religious freedom

 

-1729 , North Carolina became a royal colony

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Georgia
Definition

-Last colony to be established in the southern colonies

-Big diversity ;

English, German, Swiss, and Scottish colonists arrived

-Catholics were banned because they might sympathize with Spanish Catholics in Florida

Oglethorpe had strict rules

-Georgia became a royal company

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