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southern colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| refuge | a safe place |
| royal colony | a colony controlled by a king |
| proprietary colony | a colony controlled by a proprietor (person or group of people) |
| 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" 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 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 one another for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| calverts | the family that started Maryland colony |
| lords proprietors | the eight English leaders of the Carolina colony |