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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | A written plan of government |
| Debtors | People who have been put in prison for owing money |
| Backcountry | What the settlers called the land beyond or in back of the area settled by the 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 an another for economic recources |
| Broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | The family that started the Maryland colony |
| Toleration Act | Gave religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland colony |
| Lord Propieters | The 8 English leaders of the Carolina colony |
| James Olgethorpe | Founded Georgia |
| Great Wagon Road | Immigrants and settlers followed this Native American trail west with their wagons |
| Tuscaora War | The fighting 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and Tuscarora Natives |
| Plantation | A large farm |
| Charter | An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person group or buisness |
| Proprietary Colony | A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen |
| Cash Crop | A crop grown by people to sell |