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indigo | a plant used to make a valuable blue dye |
debtor | person who woes money they can't pay back |
buffer | land between 2 other lands that reduces the possibility of war. |
plantation | large estate farmed by many workers |
slave code | laws that contrlled the lives of enslaved Africans & denied them basic rights |
Mason-Dixson Line | boundary line between PA & MD. also divides the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies |
Lord Baltimore | proprietor of MD; started the doloy do Catholics could practice their religion freely |
Act of Toleration | in 1649, provided religious freedom for all Christians living in MD |
Bacon's Rebellion | Nat Bacon, a farmer, organized angry men on the frontier. the raded Indian villages |
James Oglethorpe | an English soldier that founded Georgia in 1732 for people who owed money/ fresh start |
Mary Musgrove | she was part English & part Creek Indian; helped Oglethorpe keep peace in GA |