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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition/founder | reason |
|---|---|---|
| Constitution | A written plan of goverment | |
| Debtors | People who have been put in prison for owing money | |
| Back Country | What the settlers called the land beyond,or in back of the area settled by euripeans | |
| planter | personylantation owner | |
| owerseer | a person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people | |
| indigo | dye produced by plants | |
| inderpendance | depending on other people | |
| broker | a person who buys and sells things for other people | |
| calverts | people who created Maryland | |
| toleration act | religious freedom to Christians in Maryland | |
| lords propietors | eight English leaders from the carolinas | |
| James oglethorpe | founded Georgia | |
| great wagon road | settlers followed the trail west with wagons | |
| Tuscarora war | a war between the North Carolina and the Tuscarora | |
| plantation | a large farm | |
| charter | a paper which certain rights by the government to people | |
| virginia | john smith | business opportunities cash crops |
| carolinas | lords proprieters | business opportunities cash crops |
| georgia | james oglethorpe | |
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| maryland | the calverts | business opportunities |