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Southern Colonies
Term | Definition |
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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 |