When writing of the problems the settlers faced, the first, one must consider, is the process of traveling to North Carolina. The Europeans had to buy their way onto ships that were bound for the colonies. This required payment and the majority of these immigrants were not wealthy and therefore, often entered into an indenture system meaning they would work off the debt of passage over a period of time when they arrived at their destination. It is uncertain exactly, the ease at which this could be accomplished. According to the text of From Ulster to Carolina, there was a “severe shortage of labor” thus a “demand for indentured laborers,” (21).

Even before the hopeful settlers could reach a point when they could offer themselves for indentured

These new lands gave the colonists the opportunity to foster their religions. For the Scotch-Irish, it meant the ability to practice their forms of Calvinistic Presbyterianism and for the Germans, a chance to spread their Lutheranism. The Scotch-Irish were now not inhibited by the English government in a way that persecuted them for their religious practices, there were no Penal laws here. Although the Church of England was the official church in the colony also, the law was not enforceable.

It seems as though the more things changed, the more things stayed the same for some settlers and groups. For the Scotch-Irish, their method agriculture would cross with them over the Atlantic and prosper in North Carolina. There were enough new lands in the colony that their wasteful practices did not inhibit them. The only thing different is that the quality of the soil was better in North Carolina than their former Ulster home.

Once in the colonies the new settlers faced the same problems that their predecessors had faced; how to get started, to buy land, to clear the land, to learn what would grow and what not. They also had to deal with the same stereotypes and self-serving ethnic policies they thought they had left behind. For instance, the Scotch-Irish were isolationists to a certain degree, choosing to live together rather than to mix and intertwine with other ethnic groups (31-32). They were also mistrusted and looked down upon by the colonists already present and forced to the frontier because of a lack of good lands (29).

The Ulster Scotch-Irish were met with great opportunity as they also faced the changes and problems of the colonial lifestyle in North Carolina during the 18th century. It was a time and place for new experiences and new prosperity. For many, the problems that they would face in this transition to a frontier mentality and life would not outweigh the reward for settling these new ric

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