* 1607- Virginias population reached 2500 and tobacco sales soared.

* Tidewater: is a region of low coastal land with rivers affected by ocean tides, Virginia prospered in the Chesapeake Tidewater.

* Maryland- established in 1634 by Lord Baltimore as a refuge for Catholics fleeing persecution in England.

* To attract settlers, lord Baltimore promised religious toleration to Protestants.

* During the great migration, thousands of Puritans moved to Maryland, where they soon outnumbered the Catholics.

* The tobacco plantations of the Chesapeake Tidewater were strung out along the regions many waterways. To the dock of each plantation came ships that brought manufactured goods from England and in turn carried the tobacco to market.

* Plantations were scattered, ministers found it hared to enforce church rules of behavior.

* In the beginning, fields had to be cleared of trees and the stump

* Within 3 or 4 years the nutrients of the soil are used up.

* 1/2 the children in Chesapeake died.

* 1600s- 1000s of immigrants came in response to labor, demand for the tobacco farms.

* Some of people that came were convents and artisans

* Stuyvesant, wanting to expand New Netherland, attacked the neighboring colony of Sweden 1655.

* Oglethorpe and other officers had complete authority over the colony.

* Set strict rules in Georgia, limited the amount of land a settler could own, he outlawed trade with the Indians in order to avoid conflict.

* He wrote to Dutch West India Company asking what he should do, there said to keep them there and have the same rights as everyone else.

* The duke became the largest land owner in America.

* In that year Charles the Second reclaimed his fathers thrown. Colonization then resumed in N. America.

* Welcomed different religions and ethnic groups.

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