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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
1200
Maryland
Sugar cane
2. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Royal charter
Primogeniture
Melting Pot society
Slave codes
3. What was Savvanah known as?
Nation-state
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Melting Pot society
Primogeniture
4. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Indian slaves
1624
Starving time
Sugar cane
5. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Indentured servant
Sea dogs
Lord Baltimore
Entail
6. What unusual right did Southern women have?
7. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Near James River - easy to defend.
King Phillip II of Spain
8. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
John Rolfe
John Smith
Sea dogs
9. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Maryland
Virginia Company
Longhouse
10. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Enclosure Movement
1624
Sugar cane
11. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Slavery
May 24 - 1607
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
12. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Near James River - easy to defend.
1712
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lord Del la Warr
13. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Joint-stock company
Longhouse
Near James River - easy to defend.
14. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Handsome Lake
15. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Powhatan
House of Burgess
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Joint-stock company
16. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
Maryland
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Iroquois Confederacy
17. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
yeoman
1200
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
18. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
North Carolina
1685
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
19. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Powhatan
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Sea dogs
20. Who was most famous sea dog?
December 1607.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Longhouse
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
21. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Pocahontas
Water Raleigh
22. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1670 - Lord Proprietors
23. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Entail
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Subsidaries (money compensation)
24. What caused religious civil war in England?
25. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Maryland Act of Toleration
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
26. What were the '3 D's'?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
James Oglethrope
yeoman
Rebecca
27. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
Indentured servant
Joint-stock company
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
28. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Rebecca
Iroquois Confederacy
Primogeniture
29. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
John Smith
Proprietor
Starving time
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
30. How many settlers survived the starving time?
yeoman
60
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
31. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Slavery
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
North Carolina
32. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Proprietor
1200
33. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Royal charter
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Lord Del la Warr
34. England's population between 1550-1600?
John Rolfe
December 1607.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Poulation explodes
35. What was a headright?
Large amount of land and small population.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
John Rolfe
36. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
House of Burgess
Lord Del la Warr
Joint-stock company
Iroquois Confederacy
37. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Dismissed parliament
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Near James River - easy to defend.
38. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Squatter
Royal charter
May 24 - 1607
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
39. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
Maryland Act of Toleration
Enclosure Movement
40. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Near large rivers
41. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
42. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Slavery
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Near large rivers
1712
43. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1712
1200
John Rolfe
Maryland
44. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Humphrey Gilbert
Near James River - easy to defend.
The middle ground
May 24 - 1607
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
House of Burgess
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Large amount of land and small population.
46. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Entail
December 1607.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
47. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
48. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Barbados Slave Codes
Water Raleigh
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
North Carolina
49. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Virginia Company
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Indian slaves
Joint-stock company
50. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
Slave codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.