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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
60
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
2. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Sea dogs
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
3. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Entail
60
Sugar cane
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
4. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Protestant Wind
Royal charter
Lord Baltimore
5. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
yeoman
6. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Sea dogs
7. What did Charles I do in 1629?
December 1607.
John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
Longhouse
8. Who was most famous sea dog?
John Smith
Humphrey Gilbert
1200
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
9. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
King Phillip II of Spain
Georgia
Entail
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
10. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Squatter
John Smith
Humphrey Gilbert
Subsidaries (money compensation)
11. What were the '3 D's'?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Restoration
Water Raleigh
Iroquois Confederacy
12. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Powhatan
December 1607.
Sea dogs
13. England's population between 1550-1600?
Squatter
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Poulation explodes
Indian slaves
14. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Sugar cane
15. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Melting Pot society
North Carolina
Longhouse
Slave codes
16. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
17. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
James Oglethrope
The middle ground
18. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
John Rolfe
yeoman
Barbados Slave Codes
1624
19. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Royal charter
Powhatan
Squatter
Starving time
20. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Indian slaves
yeoman
John Smith
John Rolfe
21. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Powhatan
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
1200
1624
22. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Melting Pot society
Large amount of land and small population.
Restoration
1670 - Lord Proprietors
23. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Virginia Company
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
1670 - Lord Proprietors
24. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
December 1607.
25. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Maryland
Pocahontas
Proprietor
Royal charter
26. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
1624
Lord Del la Warr
yeoman
Maryland
27. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Powhatan
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
28. What caused religious civil war in England?
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29. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Sea dogs
1712
30. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Primogeniture
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
31. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Royal charter
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
32. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Georgia
Joint-stock company
33. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Virginia Company
34. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
House of Burgess
1200
35. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Lord Del la Warr
John Smith
Maryland
Starving time
36. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Powhatan
Indentured servant
King Phillip II of Spain
37. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Entail
38. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Indentured servant
John Rolfe
Starving time
yeoman
39. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Pocahontas
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Sugar cane
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
40. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
60
Primogeniture
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
41. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
House of Burgess
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Indian slaves
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
42. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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43. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Near large rivers
The middle ground
Handsome Lake
Maryland
44. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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45. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Longhouse
Starving time
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
46. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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47. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
James Oglethrope
Handsome Lake
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
48. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Iroquois Confederacy
Restoration
Pocahontas
Enclosure Movement
49. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Handsome Lake
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
50. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Sea dogs
Near large rivers
Indian slaves