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22 Cards in this Set
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Survey |
an official measurement of land |
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Quitrent |
is a land tax that was imposed on the early settlers in Carolina by the Eight Lords Proprietors |
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Yeoman |
are small farmers in colonial North Carolina who generally raised only enough to provide for their own families |
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Edward Hyde |
was the first governor of the separate colony of North Carolina |
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Corduroy Roads |
a type of road that is formed by placing logs by side |
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Planter |
plantation owner |
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Apprentice |
is a person who learns trade from a skilled worker |
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Gentry |
the wealthy upper class of the colonial North Carolina including planters, public officials, and professionals |
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Gabriel Johnston |
was the royal governor of North Carolina for 18 years and was a Highland Scot that encouraged other Highland Scots to settle in North Carolina |
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Pennsylvania Dutch |
are German-speaking immigrants to the New World |
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Squatter |
a person who settles on land without a clear title to it |
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Artisans |
skilled craftspeople |
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Scot-Irish |
descents of Scottish settlers sent to Ireland by English monarchs in the early 1600s, many of whom settled in the English colonies |
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Head-right |
a method by which settlers received land based on the number of persons in the family |
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Highland Scots |
Inhabitants of Northwest Scotland who faced harsh English rule following their military defeat in 1746. A large number of Highland Scots settles in North Carolina |
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Eight Lords Proprietors |
men who helped King Charles ll regain his throne and were given the colony of Carolina which stretched from Virginia to Spanish Florida for their services |
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Navigation Acts |
laws begun in 1651 by England to tax and regulate trade in the colonies |
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Nathaniel Batts |
first permanent white settler in North Carolina, opened a trading post on the western side of the Albermarle Sound and has the first recorded deed in North Carolina |
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Plantation Duty Act of 1663 |
act issued by the English Parliament taxing certain goods shipped within North American colonies |
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina |
document proposed by the Eight Lords Proprietors to attract large landowners to Carolina by guaranteeing property rights |
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Great Wagon Road |
800 mile long trail that served as the principal road for the Piedmont area during the colonial times |
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Vestry Act |
the first church law in North Carolina. It called for laying out parishes, organizing vestries, and building churches as well as a tax for the support for clergymen |
