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Southern Colonies
Southern Colonies Study Tool
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 |
| interdependence | depending on another for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | the family that started Maryland Colony |
| Toleration Act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colony |
| Lords Proprietors | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colony |
| James Oglethorpe | |
| Great Wagon Road | |
| Tuscarora War | |
| plantation | |
| charter |