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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | a written plan of goverment |
| Debtors | people who had been put in prison for owing money |
| Planter | plantation owner |
| overseer | a person hired by a plantation owner to watch enslaved people work |
| indigo | the dye that is made by plants for the cloth making process |
| interdependence | depending on an other for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | the family that started the Maryland colony |
| Toleration act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colony |
| Lord proprieters | the eight English leaders of the Carolina colony |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
| Great Wagon Road | immigrants that followed the Native American trail west with their wagons |
| Tuscarora War | fighting 1711 between North Carolina settlers and Tuscarora Native Americans |
| Plantation | 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 crop | a crop that people grow to sell |