2.1 The Southern Colonies Take Root

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Chesapeake Bay had more fertile land and navigable rivers.

Chesapeake Bay was isolated and less prone to attack.

The climate was better suited to growing English crops.

There were fewer American Indians in Chesapeake Bay.

preventing war between the colonists and the American Indians.

forging an alliance with Opechancanough.

encouraging the colonists' cultivation of tobacco.

overthrowing the Virginia Company.

Bacon was the first English settler in the Potomac Valley.

Bacon commanded Virginian forces that defeated Opechancanough's army in 1644.

Bacon became the new governor of Virginia in 1677, following Berkeley's return to England.

Bacon was the leader of the armed rebellion against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.

Catholics were discriminated against in England by the Protestant majority.

Catholics were not allowed in the other Southern colonies.

Baltimore planned for Maryland to eventually join the Spanish Catholic colonies.

The Crown deported all practicing Catholics from England.