Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were

Question

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a. religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia.

b. wealthy planters from the West Indies.

c. the younger, ambitious sons of English gentry.

d. ex-convicts and debtors released from English prisons.

Answer 1

The best answer is "A". "C" was a close second though. Good Luck.

The first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were British colonists who migrated south from Virginia, following a rapid growth of the colony and the subsequent shortage of available farmland. Nathaniel Batts was documented as one of the first of these Virginian migrants. He settled south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was undergoing full-scale British settlement.

Most of the English colonists arrived as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage.