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southern colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| refuge | a safe place |
| royal colony | a colony controlled bythe king |
| proprietery colny | a colony controlled by a proprieter person or group of people |
| toleration act | a act passed in maryland that gave religous freedom to all cristmas |
| constitution | a written plan of goverment |
| debtors | people who had been pu in prison for owing monay |
| back country | what the settlers called the land beyobnd or in back of the area settled by earopeans |
| great wagon road | natuive amrican tail used by settlers to travel into the back county with loaded wagond |
| 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 clothy making proccess |
| iterdependance | dependine on one other for economic resorses |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| calverts | the familyy that started marfland colony |
| lords prporieters | the eight English leaders of the cartolina colony |
| james oglethope | founded goergia |
| tus cara war | fightineg 1711 between settlers in north Carolina and tus carora native americans |
| plantation | a large farm |
| charter | an a official paper that gives cpemission t o settle a colonieyyy |
| cash crop | a crop trhat is groxn t oo be sold |
| fort mose | settlement in Spanish florida ; first settl ment im n ametrica for free africanss |