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southern colonies
Term | Definition |
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constitusion | a written plan of government |
debtors | people who had been put in prison for owing money |
back country | what the settlers called the land beyond or in back of the area settled by Europeans |
planter | plantation owner |
overseer | a person who is 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 els |
calverts | a family that created the maryland colony |
toleration act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in maryland colony |
lords proprietors | the eight english |