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| Term | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| constitution | a written plan of government | |
| debtors | people who had been put in prison for owing money | |
| back country | 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 | ||
| James Oglethorpe- | ||
| Great Wagon Road | ||
| Tuscarora War- | ||
| plantation- | ||
| charter- | ||
| proprietary colony- | ||
| cash crop- |