Southern Colonies Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Constitution | A written plan of government |
Debtor | A person who had been in prison for owing money |
Backcountry | What the settlers called the land beyond, or "in the back of" the area settled by Europeons |
Planter | Plantation owner |
Overseer | A person hired by plantation owners to watch enslaved people as they work |
Indigo | The dye produce by plants to use in the cloth making process |
Interdependence | A person who depends on another for economic resources |
Broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
Calverts | The family that started Maryland |
Toleration Act | Gave religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland colony |
Lords Propietors | The eight English leaders of the Carolina Colony |
James Ogothrope | 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 Native Americans |
Plantation | A large farm |
Charter | An official paper in which certain rights are givin by a government to a person, group, or business |
Proprietary Colony | a colony owned or ruled by one person who was chosen by the king or queen |
Cash Crop | A crop that people grow to sell |
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