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southern colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| constitution | a written plan of government |
| debtors | people who had put in prison for owning money |
| backcountry | what setters 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 for economic resources |
| broker | a person who paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calvert | the family that started maryland |
| toleration act | gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland colonies |
| Lords Prroprietors | the eight English leaders of the Carolina colonies |
| James Oglethorope | founded Georgia |
| great wagon road | immigrants and settlers followed this native American trail west |
| Tuscarora | 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,group,or business |
| proprietary colony | a colony owned and ruled by one person who waschosen by the king or queen |
| cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |