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southern colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |