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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.






2. What was a headright?






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






4. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.






5. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?






6. What was Savvanah known as?






7. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?






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






9. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.






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






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






12. What 4 important things happened in 1619?






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






14. How many settlers survived the starving time?






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






16. What did Charles I do in 1629?






17. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?






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






19. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?






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






21. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.






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






23. What unusual right did Southern women have?

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






25. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.






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






27. England's population between 1550-1600?






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






29. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River






30. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?






31. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?






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






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






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






35. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.






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






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






38. Impact of Enclosure Movement?

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39. When and who was Carolina founded?






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






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






42. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.






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






44. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?






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






46. When was Jamestown founded?






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






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






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






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