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**Map Of the Southern Colonies**
Tobacco,indigo,rice,farm products,and furs were the main products in the Thirteen Southern Colonies besides indigo. image source:http://www.mce.k12tn.net/colonial_america/map2.gif


 * Vocab,People.and Places**
 * proprietor- a person who owns a property or a business

debtor- a person who owns money**


 * indigo- a plant that is used to produce a blue dye**

Indigo plant was very important to Georgia because it was a cash crop,and people would pay a lot to have colorful clothes.
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the Savannah settlement
 * Tomochichi- 1650?-1739 Chief of the Yamacraw who gave James Oglethorpe land for

James Oglethorpe- 1696-1785 British military officer who founded the colony of Georgia in 1732 http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/1200/1275/oglethorpe_3_lg.gif**

[[image:charles2.jpg width="208" height="146"]]King George II sent all of the debtors to Georgia.
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 * Virginia- started to grow.In 1663, King Charles II gave eight properties,and a charter founded

North Carolina- Carolina was later divided into North Carolina and South Carolina

South Carolina- Carolina was later divided into North Carolina and South Carolinabbacco.html]]**

became known as England's Southern Colonies
 * Georgia-in 1732, Georgia was founded.Georgia was the last if the group of settlements that

Southern Colonies- the name given to the English colonies of Georgia,Maryland,North Carolina,and Virginia before the American Revolution

Savannah- a port city in southeastern Georgia, site of the first women's rights convention in the United States in 1848;43degrees N,77 degrees W**

=Important Facts= = =
 * Chief Tomochichi was the current chief of the Yamcraw in the 1700s.The Yamcraw were seperate from the Creek Confederacy.They lived in well farming areas. Chief Tomochichi led the Yamcraw in their first meetings with the English colonists and their leader,James Oglethrope.

James Oglethrope was a wealthy English army genral.In 1729,he formed a committee to examine England's debtors.There were so many debtors,that James Oglethrope went to King George II ,and suggested that they send the debtors to Georgia to work as farmers and pay of their debts.He named Georgia after King Geore II.

Georgia seperated the Carolinas fom the Spanish and French claims.It was also home to the following products:tobacco,indigo,farming land,anf furs.There was also red clay in Georgia,which was good for farming.

Savannah became Georgia's first colony in 1733.It was located next to Tomochichi's village.That helped the two leaders to meet.Savannah was the first to have "rented" slavery,which turned into slavery.**

The creek and the English. The area the English called the Southern colonies was the home to

The creek and the English. The area the English called the Southern colonies was the home to Creek,Cherokee,Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Theses native Americans the creek were the largest group. All the creek spoke was one language. Before the Europeans arrived, the creek villages joined to form the creek confederacy.At there Confederacy the creek were able to protect there land.

King Charles I gave lord Baltimore a charter to find more land so catholics could go here. A group of people who lived here was called meproprietors. South of Maryland and Virginia was growing.KC King Charles II gave people Charles to fund Carolina which Way later dived in to north/south.

In 1732 Georgia was found last of settlement that became known as England`s southern colonies.

1.) 1634 King Charles save Lord Baltimore charted for Maryland 2.) 1663 King Charles gave peeps charter for carol me 3.) 1732.)Georgia was founded last of English settlement

General James Oglethorpe

James Oglethorpe was an English general, who was always shocked about all of the debtors in prison so in 1729 he formed a committee to talk about his disgust with the subject. In 1730 he sent a letter to king George the 2nd purposing permission to allow debtors in jail a place to stay in his settlement of Philadelphia, 1732 he got his letter from the king allowing him to start his settlement. His colony was named Georgia, after the wonderful king who gave him the permission to do this.

Georgia of the Southern Colonies

the farmers of the southern colonies found out that red clay soil of the Appalachian foothills was good for growing corn and tobacco. Along part of the Atlantic coastal plain the growing season lasts seven months. Planters there grow rice and indigo on large farms. Indigo is a plant that produces blue die

Change comes to Georgia

The debtors who came to Georgia wanted slavery, but James Oglethorpe was agenst it. So the pepol "rented" enslaved Africansform South Carolina. By 1750 slavery was establishedin Georgia .From the 1750 to the 1760 the poplution of Georgia incresd. From 4,000 to 17,000. 4,000 were enslaved.