| A | B |
|---|
| proprietor | owner of a colony |
| George Calvert | wanted to start a colony to become wealthy |
| Maryland | colony started by Calvert family |
| Toleration Act | allowed Christians to worship as they pleased |
| Huguenots | French Protestants who settled in Charleston |
| North and South Carolina | colonies sold back to the King because owners never made any money |
| debtor | person who owes money |
| James Oglethorpe | started the colony of Georgia as a way to help debtors |
| good bays and harbors | along coastline of the southern colonies |
| Three geographic regions of the Southern colonies | Atlantic Coastal Plain - Appalachian Mountains - Piedmont |
| Atlantic Coastal Plain | wide, low, flat land |
| Tidewater | good farmland and place where many early settlements were started in Virginia |
| Fall Line | farthest point that ships can travel upstream |
| mild climate | found in Southern colonies |
| cash crop | crop that can be sold for money |
| plantation | large southern farms |
| tobacco | main cash crop on plantations in Maryland and Virginia |
| indigo | plant used to make blue dye |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work for five to seven years for whomever paid for their passage to America |
| slave | person owned by another person |
