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SS Southern Colonies
Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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Cash crop | a crop that is sold for money |
Plantation | a large farm on which one main crop is grown |
Indigo | a plant from which blue dye is made |
Indentured Servant | a person who sold his or her services for a certain period of time in exchange for free passage to a foreign land |
Tidewater | salty water pushes back fresh water of rivers |
Proprietor | an owner |
Huguenot | a French protestant |
Debtor | someone who owes money |
Country Seat | the seat of government of county or the main town of a county |
Slave Quarter | the area at the back of a plantation where the slaves lived, often in small cabins |
Back Country | the area above the fall line in the Piedmont Region |