- Capital: Seat of Goverment for a state of nation; money that is invested to build more wealth
- Compromise: A way of settling disagreements in which each side gives away a little in its demands
- Conrtact: An official, legally binding writtin agreement
- Dissenters: In the late 1600s, Protestants who were not members of the Angican church
- Established Church: The Alglican church which many dissenters feared the assembly would make the official church of SC
- Faction: A small, united group with in a larger group
- Governor: The head of a colony or state
- Headright Method: A method of grantong an amount of land to settlers depanding on the number of people in their families
- Immigrant: One who makes to a new colony or country to settle there
- Juror: A citizen who is chosen to serve on a jury and make a decision about a case brought before the jury
- Lords Proprietors: 8 supporters to whom King Charles II of England gave a grant to esabish a colony that included land that later bacame SC
- Majority: More than half
- Milltia: A miliatary force composed mainly of citizens
- Naval Stores: Pitch and tar made from pinetrees and used to make ships water-tight
- Parish: A church district
- Quitrant: An annual rent or tax paid be the settlers to the Lords Proprietors for land granted by them
- Sounds: Long, broad inlets along the coast of NC
- Staple Crop: A crop that most people eat or are able to use
- Status Quo: The current state of affairs
- The Roestoration: An event that took place on May 8, 1660, when Charles II, bacame King of England and had a major impact on the serrlement of SC