SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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New England Colony
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Middle Colony
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Southern Colony
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Crown rule; William III and Mary II declared Maryland a royal colony, rather than a proprietary province, and appointed Sir Lionel Copley as 1st Royal Governor (he arrived in St. Mary’s County, April 6, 1692). 1692, June 2. Assembly passed law requiring four delegates from each county to be elected to Lower House.
Detailed explanation-3: -George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. After Calvert died in April 1632, the charter for “Maryland Colony” was granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632.
Detailed explanation-4: -Maryland became the first colony to outlaw the use of slave and indentured labor. Maryland’s economy was based on subsistence farming and the shipbuilding industry. Maryland merged politically with the colony of Virginia during the English Civil War.