| A | B |
|---|
| joint-stock company | a company that sold shares to investers who expected to receive a share of the company's profits |
| capital | money and property such as supplies, tools, ships |
| indentured servants | one who agreed to work for another for a period of time in return for passage to the New World |
| navigable | passable by boat |
| persecution | unjust treatment |
| Lords Proprietors | eight supporters of King Charles II who received from him a charter to a colony that included what later became N. C. |
| Assembly | the law-making body of the colony |
| militia | a citizen army |
| govenor | one who rules a colony or state |
| council | a group in the colonial period who helped and advised the govenor |
| unicameral | one-house, as a legislature |
| bicameral | two -house, as a legistature |
| taxes | the money given by businesses and citizens to the government to pay for services the government provides |
| land grant | a piece of land given to a settler who agreed to move onto it |
| Culpeper's Rebellion | an uprising in 1677 to protest the enforcement of the Navigation Acts and the rule of Thomas Miller |
| dissenters | people who did not belong to the Church of England |
| Quakers | members of a religious group wh did not believe in churches or ceremonies and who were pacifists |
| borough towns | towns with sixty or more families |
| royal colony | a colony governed directly by the crown |
