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Southern Colonies
Term | Definition |
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Constitution | A written plan of government |
Debtors | People who had been put in to 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 |
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 rescurces |
Calverts | The family that started Maryland colony |
Toleration Act | Gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland |
Lord Proprietor | The eight English leaders of the Carolina colonies |
James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia |
Great Wagon Road | Immigrants and settlers followed this Native American trail west with there wagons |
Tuscarora War | Fighting 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and Tuscarora Native Americans |
Plantations | A large farm |
Charter | An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person, group, or business |
Proprietary Colony | A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by the King or Queen |
Cash Crops | A crop that people grow to sell |