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7. WHAT DOES THE PROFESSOR IMPLY ABOUT RENT CONTROLS? 
8. WHICH TOPIC WOULD SATISFY THE PROFESSOR’S REQUIREMENTS? 
9. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS OF COMPLETING THE ASSIGNMENT 
WOULD SATISFY THE PROFESSOR’S REQUIREMENT? 
LISTENING EXERCISE (Skills 5 and 6) 
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Questions 1 through 7.
Listen to part of a lecture in a United States history course.
(Professor)
Now, let’s move to the colonization of Carolina. The Outer Banks of 
North Carolina is the location of the very first English attempt at 
establishing a settlement. This was the English explorer’s, Sir Walter 
Raleigh’s, venture in America. So, yes, the first English colony was 
established in what eventually became North Carolina, but at the time, it 
was called Virginia.
Take a look at this map. Here you can see the Outer Banks, which 
are a series of islands stretching along the coast of North Carolina. 
Here’s Roanoke Island on the map. That was where the colony was 
established in 1587. Now, a lot of you already know why we don’t hear a 
lot about Roanoke in the records of the colonial history of British America 
after this time, and that is because Roanoke is also known as the Lost 
Colony. You see, Raleigh returned to England to get supplies, but was 
caught in the middle of the attempted invasion of England by the Spanish 
Armada…Um, he was unable to return to America until three years after 
he had left, only to find the colonists had disappeared. To this day, no 
one knows what happened to them for sure.
I’m telling you, the Outer Banks have had their share of interesting 
stories. However, after the settlers in the Roanoke colony mysteriously 
vanished, other parts of the coast were eventually settled…Um, 
Jamestown, Virginia, and Massachusetts Bay. It was several decades 
before English settlers returned to the lands that would become North 
and South Carolina. 

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OK, let’s look at how during the establishment of permanent 
settlements in Carolina…generally similar to all of the colonization of 
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Bay…um, the grand plans of 
the founders went hugely wrong. And, like the other colonies, the British 
Province of Carolina eventually achieved a success quite different from 
what the originators had planned, but still became a prosperous center of 
trade. 
It was named after Charles I of England, but it was his son Charles II 
who actually issued the charter—or the legal document—that resulted in 
a permanent settlement. 
He gave the charter to eight people, who were called the Lords 
Proprietors, and who were to control the administration of the colony. 
One of the Lords Proprietors, who was very interested in Carolina, Lord 
Shaftesbury, was able to convince the philosopher John Locke to draw 
up the plan for the government. Now, the plan was for a totally novel and 
innovative form of government—not democracy, but also not a form 
resembling anything in England. There were some almost feudal 
elements: a class of farmers, and one of slaves. However, there were 
also landowners, who again were divided into various classes, and who 
were to elect a governing council. The council could vote on laws, but the 
ultimate decision came from the Lords Proprietors. The official church 
would be the Church of England, but any religious group would be 
reasonably free to observe their faith.
When the proprietors established the capital of Carolina at Charles 
Town, now Charleston, South Carolina, in 1670, there were already 
former Virginians who had moved into the Carolina territory at Albemarle 
Sound, in the area now called North Carolina. So, from the start, there 
were already different settlements within the land called Carolina. OK, so 
by the end of the seventeenth century, Charleston had become a 
successful port, had a plantation-style economy, and was exporting rice 
and indigo, a plant used in producing a popular dye. But, as one would 
expect, the settlers in and around Charleston were not too pleased with 
the rule of the Proprietors. They had always resisted the original plan for 
government and, in fact, it was abandoned by 1690. In 1709, these 
settlers revolted and offered their colony directly to the British Crown to 
control.
The British king, of course, was only too happy to take over the 
valuable port of Charleston in what is now South Carolina, and from that 
point on, only the Albemarle Sound settlements in North Carolina 
remained under the control of the eight proprietors. Not because the 
North Carolinians liked them so much, but because they were just less 
organized than the Southerners. Later, the Crown paid these proprietors 
to give up their control, and the colonies of North and South Carolina 
were brought under direct royal control in 1729. And so, like other 
colonies, North and South Carolina were successful, but not at all in the 
way that the people who had established them would have imagined.