PL HELP THIS DUE TODAY AND NO ONE HELPING I SWEAR THE PEOPLE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WERE TROLLING PLZI NEED THIS DONE!!! TEXT:lVirginia was the first of the Southern Colonies to be settled, becoming very profitable for its tobacco plantations. The other Southern Colonies were Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

Maryland started as safe place for Roman Catholics to live. Catholics had been persecuted in England since the 1500s, and an Englishman named George Calvert asked the king to grant a charter for a colony of Catholic settlers. Calvert died before the charter was finished, so Maryland was taken over by his son, Lord Baltimore. Soon, however, Puritans moved into Maryland and outnumbered the Catholics before long. Even though Maryland had a law protecting religious freedom, it did not include non-Christians, and the Puritans changed the law to state that non-Christians would be put to death. Like Virginia before it, Maryland became successful because of its tobacco plantations.
An area called Carolina split into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1712. Both colonies thrived on tobacco profits, and South Carolina also created many rice plantations.

Georgia was founded with two goals: to be a haven for people who had been in jail in England for not being able to pay their taxes, and to protect the Southern Colonies against attack from Spanish raiders in Florida. Georgia had very strict rules. No alcohol was permitted, and no Catholics were allowed. Eventually liquor was allowed by settlers, and enslaved Africans were brought in to work the land.

1. What group was supposed to be protected in Maryland?