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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Pocahontas
Indentured servant
1712
Lord Del la Warr
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.
Slave codes
December 1607.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Squatter
4. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Restoration
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1685
North Carolina
5. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Primogeniture
John Rolfe
6. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
7. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Sugar cane
Poulation explodes
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
8. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Longhouse
Poulation explodes
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
9. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Nation-state
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
10. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Royal charter
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Squatter
Nation-state
11. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Maryland
Joint-stock company
Virginia Company
Indian slaves
12. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Restoration
Near James River - easy to defend.
Indentured servant
13. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Lord Baltimore
Lord Del la Warr
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Georgia
14. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Rebecca
Royal charter
1624
60
15. What were the '3 D's'?
Iroquois Confederacy
Large amount of land and small population.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
John Rolfe
16. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Royal charter
Humphrey Gilbert
Proprietor
Large amount of land and small population.
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.
Sea dogs
Humphrey Gilbert
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
December 1607.
18. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Pocahontas
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Starving time
19. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Rebecca
Entail
60
Restoration
20. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Nation-state
Iroquois Confederacy
House of Burgess
21. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Melting Pot society
Water Raleigh
House of Burgess
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
22. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Lord Del la Warr
23. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Maryland
Rebecca
Protestant Wind
Handsome Lake
24. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
North Carolina
King Phillip II of Spain
Georgia
Squatter
25. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Near large rivers
1624
Water Raleigh
26. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
House of Burgess
Starving time
Powhatan
Restoration
27. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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28. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Sugar cane
Could inherit husband's land.
Starving time
Indentured servant
29. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Handsome Lake
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Protestant Wind
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
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?
Lord Del la Warr
1200
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Longhouse
33. What was Savvanah known as?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1712
Melting Pot society
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
34. A country that is unified.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Nation-state
1624
Proprietor
35. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
60
Powhatan
yeoman
36. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
John Rolfe
Powhatan
Joint-stock company
37. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Pocahontas
Entail
House of Burgess
38. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Virginia Company
Enclosure Movement
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
39. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
North Carolina
Primogeniture
Handsome Lake
Subsidaries (money compensation)
40. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Georgia
John Rolfe
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
41. England's population between 1550-1600?
John Rolfe
Could inherit husband's land.
Slavery
Poulation explodes
42. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Slavery
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Primogeniture
43. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
John Smith
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
John Rolfe
1670 - Lord Proprietors
44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Enclosure Movement
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Indentured servant
45. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Handsome Lake
Near large rivers
46. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Sugar cane
1712
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
47. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
60
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Handsome Lake
48. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Indian slaves
Royal charter
Indentured servant
49. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
John Smith
Handsome Lake
Powhatan
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
50. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
May 24 - 1607
Restoration
Georgia