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southern colonies
| 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 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 |