13 Colonies Notes
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US History [1]
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8/23/13 11:14 AM Southern Religion Maryland passed Act of Religion Toleration (1649), this protected the rights of all Christians. Organized religion has less influence in the Southern colonies. Communities were diverse and people were thinly spread. Society Education and cultural institutions were nearly nonexistent, because there was no concentration of people in any given area. Large scale slavery because of intensive labor crops grown in the region. Most South Carolina?s residents were slaves. Early Chesapeake history had huge population losses due to disease. Women, with the likelihood of being widowed, had more rights than anywhere else. Government