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southern colonies
Maryland, Virginia, The Carolinas, and Georgia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | A written plan of government |
| Debtors | People who were put in prison for owing money |
| Backcountry | What settlers called the land beyond, or "in the back of" the area settled by Europeans |
| Planter | A plantation owner |
| Overseer | A person hired by plantation owners to watch the 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 | The family that started the Maryland Colony |
| Toleration Act | Gave religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland Colony |
| Lords Proprieters | 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 in 1711 between settlers in North Carolina and Tuscarora Native Americans |
| Plantation | A large farm |
| Charter | An official paper in which certain rights were given by a government to a person, group, or business |
| Proprietary Colony | A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen the King or Queen |
| Cash Crop | A crop that people grow to sell |