-founded in 1607

-first colony to be established in southern colonies

-grew tobacco

-first settlement was Jamestown

-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

-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

-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