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Southern colonies vocabulary

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Constitution   Written plan of government.  
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Debtor   People who have been put in prison for owing money.  
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Backcountry   What the settlers called the land beyond or "in the back of" the area settled by Europeans.  
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Planter   Plantation owner.  
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Overseer   A person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people as they work.  
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Indigo   The dye produced by plants to use in the cloth making process.  
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Interdependence   Depending on another of economic resources.  
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Broker   A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else.  
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Calverts   The family that started Maryland colony.  
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Toleration Act   Gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colony.  
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Lords Proprietors   The eight English leaders of the Carolina Colony.  
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James Oglethorpe   Founded Georgia.  
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Great Wagon Road   Immigrants and settlers followed this native american trail west with their wagons.  
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Tuscarora War   Fighting 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and Tuscarora Native Americans.  
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Plantation   A large Farm.  
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Charter   An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person.  
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Proprietary Colony   A colony owned and riled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen.  
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Cash Crop   A crop that people grow to sell.  
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