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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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2. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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3. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Royal charter
John Smith
Indian slaves
Indentured servant
4. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Protestant Wind
James Oglethrope
Maryland Act of Toleration
Near James River - easy to defend.
5. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
Melting Pot society
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
1624
6. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Enclosure Movement
Water Raleigh
7. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
King Phillip II of Spain
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
8. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Squatter
Melting Pot society
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
9. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
1685
Slave codes
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.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Humphrey Gilbert
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
11. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
December 1607.
12. What were the '3 D's'?
1685
House of Burgess
John Rolfe
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
13. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
yeoman
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Powhatan
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
14. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
60
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
15. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
King Phillip II of Spain
Sea dogs
Maryland Act of Toleration
Joint-stock company
16. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Lord Del la Warr
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Handsome Lake
Indentured servant
17. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Poulation explodes
Iroquois Confederacy
John Smith
Sea dogs
18. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Starving time
Barbados Slave Codes
19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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20. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Maryland Act of Toleration
Joint-stock company
Barbados Slave Codes
Pocahontas
21. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
Longhouse
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Iroquois Confederacy
22. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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23. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Joint-stock company
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
24. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Handsome Lake
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Squatter
1712
25. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Handsome Lake
Rebecca
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
26. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
yeoman
Dismissed parliament
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
27. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Slavery
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
28. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Restoration
James Oglethrope
Indentured servant
1624
29. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Large amount of land and small population.
Primogeniture
Near James River - easy to defend.
Sugar cane
30. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1712
Primogeniture
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
31. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Starving time
John Smith
Handsome Lake
32. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Slave codes
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Iroquois Confederacy
Maryland Act of Toleration
33. When was Jamestown founded?
Indentured servant
Could inherit husband's land.
Lord Del la Warr
May 24 - 1607
34. What was a headright?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Barbados Slave Codes
1685
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
35. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Primogeniture
The middle ground
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
36. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Near James River - easy to defend.
Pocahontas
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
37. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Lord Baltimore
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Royal charter
38. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
1685
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Joint-stock company
Virginia Company
39. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Restoration
House of Burgess
Iroquois Confederacy
Enclosure Movement
40. Who was most famous sea dog?
Royal charter
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Entail
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
41. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Iroquois Confederacy
Enclosure Movement
Restoration
Humphrey Gilbert
42. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Powhatan
Rebecca
43. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
60
Humphrey Gilbert
44. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Sea dogs
Squatter
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Longhouse
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
46. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
John Smith
Indian slaves
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
47. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
48. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
yeoman
Protestant Wind
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
49. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Sugar cane
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
John Smith
50. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
James Oglethrope
Georgia
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony