| A | B |
|---|
| Mason-Dixon Line | Boundry line between MD and PA |
| Tidewater | Coastal plain area in the southern colonies washed by ocean tides |
| slave codes | laws that controlled slaves and denied them basic rights |
| racism | The belief that one race is better than another |
| Middle Passage | Slave ship trip from Africa to the Americas |
| Quakers | First group of colonists to call for an end to slavery |
| Planters | They made all of the important decisions on the plantations |
| Backcountry life | Very democratic-treated one another as equals |
| Southern Colonies | MD, VA, NC, SC, GA |
| Products of the Southern Colonies | Rice,Indigo,Cattle,Grain,Tobacco,Fish,Lumber,Rum,Iron |
| Charles Mason-Jeremiah DIxon | English mathematicians who surveyed line between MD and PA |
| 100,000 | Number of slaves arriving each year by the 1700's |
| Olaudah Equiano | Slave who wrote a book about his life |
| 1/4 1/2 2/3 | Fractions of slave cargoes lost at sea |
