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southern colonies
Term | Definition |
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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 Europeans |
planter | plantation owner |
overseer | |
Calverts | the family that started Maryland Colony |
broker- | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
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 - | |
charter- | |
plantation- | |
proprietary colony- | |
cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |