| A | B |
|---|
| indigo | plant that makes a blue dye |
| cash crops | crops people grow to sell and make a profit |
| tidewater | a low coastal plain full of waterways |
| plantation | a large, Southern farm |
| planters | a plantation owner |
| broker | person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| public service | people who do a job to help the community |
| society | people who are bound by common laws and traditions |
| overseer | person who sees that slaves do their work |
| field slaves | worked in plantation fields |
| George Calvert | Roman Catholic who founded Maryland for Catholics |
| Eliza Lucas | in charge of 3 plantations |
| Benjamin Banneker | Free black who wrote an Alamanac |
| William Byrd II | planter who kept diary about plantation life |
| Lord Baltimore | Named Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia |
| Tobacco | used as money in plantation economy |
| Richmond, VA & Baltimore, MD | towns near Fall Line |
| "Brer Rabbit" | folk story from Africa |
| Important colonial port | Charleston, SC |
| New England, W. Africa, and W. Indies | Triangular Trade Route |
| W. Indies to the Southern Colonies | Middle Passage |
| tobacco, rice, and indigo | southern colonies cash crops |
| King Charles II | gave Carolina to 8 men who divided it in 2. |
| South Carolina | flat swampy land was good for growing rice |
| Cruelest part of slavery | One person owns another |
| Fall Line towns important because... | farmers brought crops to them |
| Tidewater towns grew slowly because... | towns weren't needed for planters to sell goods |
| Charleston was important because... | it had a good harbor |
