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Southern Colonies
Southern colonies vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | Written plan of government. |
| Debtor | People who have been put in prison for owing money. |
| Backcountry | What the settlers called the land beyond or "in the 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 of 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. |
| Proprietary Colony | A colony owned and riled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen. |
| Cash Crop | A crop that people grow to sell. |