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6th SS Ch 7_v
6th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7 Vocab & People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constitution | A written plan of government |
| Debtors | People who had been put in prison for owing money |
| Backcountry | The land beyond or "in back of" the area settled by Europeans |
| Planter | Plantation owners |
| Overseer | A hired person who watched enslaved people as they worked |
| Indigo | A plant from which a blue dye can be produced |
| Interdependence | The freedom to govern on one's own |
| Broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| George Calvert | Member of the Virginia Company and the first Lord Baltimore; received the original charter for Maryland |
| Cecilius Calvert | Established the Maryland Colony |
| James Oglethorpe | English Leader who founded the Georgia Colony |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney | Carolina colonist who experimented with growing indigo plants |
| Charles Town | South Carolina, became the largest city in the Southern Colonies |
| Baltimore | Maryland, exported large amounts of grain and tobacco |
| Wilmington | North Carolina, important shipping center for forest goods |
| Spanish Florida | A safe place for enslaved people to escape to |
| Fort Mose | The first settlement in North America for free Africans |
| Black Seminoles | Runaway enslaved people that dressed and spoke like Seminoles |