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southern colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| constitution | a written plan of government |
| debtors | people who have been put in prison for owing money |
| back country | what the settlers called land beyond"in back of" the area settled by Europeans |
| planter | plantation owner |
| overseer | a person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people when they work |
| indigo | the dye produced by plants to use in the cloth making prosses |
| interdependence | depending on another for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | the family who founded Maryland |
| toleration act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colonies |
| Lords Propritors | the eight English learders of the Carolinia Colony |
| James Oglthrope | founder of Georgia |
| Great Wagon Road | Imagrants and settelers followed this Native Americn trail west with there wgons |
| Tuscora War | Fighting 1711Between settelers in North Carolinia and Tuscora Native Americans |
| plantaion | a large farm |
| Charter | an official paper in which certian rights are given by a government to a person, group or business |
| proprietray colony | a colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by the king or qeen |
| crash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |