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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.






2. What was Captain John Smith's motto?

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3. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.






4. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?






5. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?






6. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.






7. To limit property rights to eldest son.






8. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these






9. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?






10. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River






11. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.






12. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.






13. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?






14. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?






15. What were the '3 D's'?






16. What did the south have a lot of and less of?






17. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.






18. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.






19. How many settlers survived the starving time?






20. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.






21. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.






22. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?






23. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?






24. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?






25. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?






26. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.






27. Impact of Enclosure Movement?

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28. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?






29. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?






30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?

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31. What caused religious civil war in England?

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32. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?






33. What was Savvanah known as?






34. A country that is unified.






35. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.






36. What was a headright?






37. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.






38. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.






39. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?






40. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?






41. England's population between 1550-1600?






42. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.






43. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?






44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?






45. What 4 important things happened in 1619?






46. When and who was Carolina founded?






47. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.






48. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.






49. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.






50. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?