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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 |
| backcountry | what the settlers called the land beyond,or "in a back of " the area settled by europeans |
| 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 another for economic resources |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| calverts | the family that started Maryland colony |
| toleration act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colony |
| lords proprietors | the eight English leaders of the Carolina colony |
| James Oglethorpe | founded georgia |
| great wagon road | immigrants and settlers followed this native american trail west with their wagons |
| Tuscarora war | fighting 1711 between settlers in north Carolina 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 buisness |
| proprietary colony | a colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen |
| cash crop | a cropm that people grow to sell |