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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| refuge | a safe place |
| royal colony | a colony controlled by a king |
| proprietary coloy | a colony controlled by a proprieatar |
| toleration act | act passed in Maryland that gave religious freedom to all Christians |
| 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 |
| Great Wagon Road | Native American trail used by settlers to travel into the backcountry with loaded wagons |
| planter | plantation owner |
| overseer | a person hired by a plantation owners to watch enslaved people as they worked |
| indigo | the dye produced by plants to use in the cloth making process |
| inderpendence | depending on one another for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | the family who started the Maryland colony |
| Lord Proprietors | the eight English leaders of the Carolina colony |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
| Tuscarora War | fighting 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and the Tuscarora Native Americans |
| plantation | a large farm |
| charter | an official paper that gives permission to settle a coloy |
| cash crop | a crop that is grown to be sold |
| Fort Mose | settlement in the Spanish Florida: first settlement in n |