Southern Colonies Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
constitution | a written plan of government |
debtors | people who had been put in prison for owing money |
backcountry | what the settlers called the land beyond, or "in the back of" the area settled by Eurepeons |
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 |
independence | depending on another for economic recourse |
broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell someone else |
Calverts | the family that started the Maryland Colony |
Toleration Act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland Colony |
Lords Proprietors | the eight English leaders of the Carolina Colony |
James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
Great Wagon Road | immigrants and settlers followed this Native American trail west with their wagons |
Tuscarora War | fighting 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and Tuscarora Native Americans |
plantation | a large farm |
charter | an official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person,group or buisness |
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