NC: A Royal Colony

North Carolina became a Royal Colony in 1729. What is a Royal Colony?

• A colony that is controlled by private citizens

• A colony that is allowed to govern itself

• A colony that is controlled directly by the British Government (King)

• A colony that is controlled by a corporation

Which region's interests did the Regulators most likely support?

• the "Backcountry" or Western Counties

• The Granville District

• The Cape Fear Region or Southern Counties

• The Eastern Counties oif the Coastal Plain

Which statement below best describes "the Regulators"?

• They were English Anglicans in the Northern Counties who lived in the Granville District

• They were citiznes of the Western Counties (Orange County) who tried to punish corrupt public officiaen

• They were members of the colonial militia who guarded Governor Tryon's Palace

• They were a Group a Cape Fear colonists who controlled the NC Assembly

WHich was the largest group to settle in NC via the Great wagon Road?

• Highland Scots

• Quakers

• Scots-Irish

• Moravians

Which NC leader defeated an army of Cherokee warriors at Fort Dobbs during the Cherokee War or French and Indian War?

• High Waddell

• Gabriel Johnston

• William Tryon

• Edmund Fanning

The strip of land in NC that was not sold back to the Crown by the Proprietors with the rest of the colony became known as the 

• Winston Salem

• Backcountry

• Granville District 

• Piedmont 

Who was the Royal Governor who defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance?

• Arthur Dobbs

• Hugh Waddell

• Gabriel Johnston

• William Tryon

Sectional Conflicts in NC existed mostly between ...

• Westerners vs Easterners

• Northerners and Southerners

• Anglicans and Quakers

• Virginians and Georgians