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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Squatter
Slavery
2. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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3. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Lord Baltimore
Slavery
Royal charter
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
4. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Squatter
Primogeniture
Protestant Wind
5. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Joint-stock company
6. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Handsome Lake
Maryland Act of Toleration
Slave codes
Dismissed parliament
7. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
8. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
James Oglethrope
May 24 - 1607
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
9. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Could inherit husband's land.
Large amount of land and small population.
James Oglethrope
Proprietor
10. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
House of Burgess
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Near large rivers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
11. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Joint-stock company
Indentured servant
Pocahontas
Squatter
12. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
May 24 - 1607
Rebecca
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Restoration
13. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Restoration
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Iroquois Confederacy
14. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
1624
Royal charter
Humphrey Gilbert
Pocahontas
15. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Longhouse
1685
Barbados Slave Codes
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
16. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Lord Del la Warr
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
17. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
60
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
18. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
King Phillip II of Spain
Powhatan
John Rolfe
1685
19. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Primogeniture
King Phillip II of Spain
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
20. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Iroquois Confederacy
Maryland
Restoration
21. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Indentured servant
Starving time
1685
1670 - Lord Proprietors
22. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
King Phillip II of Spain
Virginia Company
23. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
King Phillip II of Spain
Water Raleigh
Near James River - easy to defend.
Joint-stock company
24. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Protestant Wind
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Poulation explodes
25. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Enclosure Movement
Near James River - easy to defend.
House of Burgess
Squatter
26. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
yeoman
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Entail
Indian slaves
27. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
1685
Lord Del la Warr
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
28. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Royal charter
Enclosure Movement
Dismissed parliament
29. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
30. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
King Phillip II of Spain
Near large rivers
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
31. What did Charles I do in 1629?
60
Dismissed parliament
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Barbados Slave Codes
32. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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33. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Entail
Slave codes
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Near James River - easy to defend.
34. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
North Carolina
Georgia
Melting Pot society
Slavery
35. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
1712
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
36. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Indentured servant
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Sea dogs
37. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
Poulation explodes
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
38. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Sugar cane
Starving time
39. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
Joint-stock company
Protestant Wind
Iroquois Confederacy
40. When and who was Carolina founded?
Virginia Company
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Iroquois Confederacy
John Rolfe
41. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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42. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Powhatan
North Carolina
Pocahontas
43. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Primogeniture
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
44. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Iroquois Confederacy
45. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
1200
December 1607.
Protestant Wind
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
46. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Squatter
John Rolfe
47. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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48. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Joint-stock company
House of Burgess
Proprietor
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
49. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Water Raleigh
Lord Baltimore
Sugar cane
Proprietor
50. When was Jamestown founded?
House of Burgess
May 24 - 1607
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
1200