North Carolina Colonization
1. Survey – an official measurement of land.
2. Quitrent – is a land tax that was imposed on the early settlers in Carolina by the
Eighth Lords Proprietors
3. Yeoman – are small farmers in colonial North Carolina who generally raised only
enough to provide for their own families
4. Edward Hyde – was the first governor of the separate colony of North Carolina
5. Corduroy Roads – a type of road that is formed by placing logs side by side
6. Planter – plantation owner
7. Apprentice – is a person who learns a trade from a skilled worker
8. Gentry – the wealthy upper class of colonial North Carolina including planters,
public officials and professionals
9. 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
10. Pennsylvania Dutch – are German-speaking immigrants to the New World
11. Squatter – a person who settles on land without clear title to it
12. Artisans – skilled craftspeople
13. Scot-Irish – descendants of Scottish settlers sent to Ireland by English monarchs
in the early 1600, many of whom settled in the English colonies.
14. Head-right – a method by which settlers received land based on the number of
persons in the family.
15. Highland Scots- Inhabitants of Northwest Scotland who faced harsh English rule
following their military defeat in 1746. A large number of Highland Scots settled
in North Carolina.
16. Eight Lords Proprietors – men who helped King Charles II regain his throne and
were given the colony of Carolina which stretched from Virginia to Spanish
Florida for their service
17. Navigation Acts – laws begun in 1651 by England to tax and regulate trade in the
colonies.
18. Nathaniel Batts – first permanent white settler in North Carolina, opened a trading
post on the western side of the Albemarle Sound and has the first recorded deed
in North Carolina
19. Plantation Duty Act of 1663 – Act issued by the English Parliament taxing certain
goods shipped within the North American colonies.
20. Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina- Document proposed by the Eight Lords
Proprietors to attract large landowners to Carolina by guaranteeing property
rights.
21. Great Wagon Road – 800 mile long trail that served as the principal road for the
Piedmont area during colonial times.
22. 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
of clergymen.