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Southern Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitutions | A written plan of government |
| Debtors | People who had 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 worked |
| Indigo | The dye produced by plants to use in the cloth making process |
| Interdependance | Depending on another for economic recources |
| Broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| Calverts | A family that started the Maryland Colony |
| Toleration act | Gave religious freedom to 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 Natives |
| Plantation | A large farm |
| Charter | An official paper in which certian 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 that people grow to sell |