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Southern Colonies
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Term | Definition |
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Refruge | A safe place |
Royal Colony | A colony controlled by the King |
Proprietary Colony | A colony controlled by a proprietor (person or group of people) |
Toleration Act | Act passed in Maryland that gave religious freedom to all Christians |
Constitution | A written plan of goverment |
Debtors | People who had been put in prison for owing money |
Backcountry | What settlers called the land beyond, or "in the back of" the area settled by Europeans |
Great Wagon Road | Native American trail used by settlers to travel into the backcountry with loaded wagons |
Planter | Plantation owner |
Overseer | A person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people as they work |
Indigo | The dye produced by plants to use in the cloth making process |