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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | A written plan of government |
| Debtor | A person who had been in prison for owing money |
| Backcountry | What the settlers called the land beyond, or "in the back of" the area settled by Europeons |
| Planter | Plantation owner |
| Overseer | A person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people as they work |
| Indigo | The dye produce by plants to use in the cloth making process |
| Interdependence | A person who depends on another for economic resources |
| Broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | The family that started Maryland |
| Toleration Act | Gave religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland colony |
| Lords Propietors | The eight English leaders of the Carolina Colony |
| James Ogothrope | 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 givin by a government to a person, group, or business |
| Proprietary Colony | a colony owned or ruled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen |
| Cash Crop | A crop that people grow to sell |