Southern Regional Culture
read Chapter 2: Lord Baltimore and Maryland charter 1632, St. Mary's 1634, Toleration Act of 1649, Sir William Berkeley and Bacon's Rebellion, Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads vs Cavaliers, Anthony Ashley Cooper and the Carolinas, James Oglethorpe and Georgia, William Penn, King Philip, King Charles II, John Coode, Ann Hutchinson, John Winthrop.
1. self-government
- House of Burgesses 1619
- Assembly in MD 1636, SC 1670
- county court 1634 - power was local
2. tobacco plantation
- John Rolfe 1612 as staple export
- credit, speculation, slavery
- self-sufficient, dispersed
3. abundant land
- hundreds, headright, fee-simple
- exterminate or remove Indians
- expansion, Tidewater v. Piedmont
4. social instability
- individualism, lack of institutions
- homogenous, but competing elites, fluid classes
- Bacon's Rebellion 1676
5. oligarchy
- landed gentry control society
- Anglican parish, vestry
- royal governor and Council
6. proprietary grants
- Maryland to Calverts 1632
- Carolina to Shaftsbury 1663
- Georgia to Oglethorpe 1732
Links:
- Jamestown Rediscovery Archeological Project web page and the recent discovery of the fort.
- Virtual Jamestown from the Virginia Center for Digital History
- Wolstenholme Town from Jamestown 2000
- Tobacco BBS includes and extensive tobacco timeline history
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot
revised 9/12/05 | Why British? | Northern Regional Culture | Class