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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Slave codes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Handsome Lake
The middle ground
2. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
December 1607.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
3. When and who was Carolina founded?
Proprietor
1670 - Lord Proprietors
May 24 - 1607
Could inherit husband's land.
4. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Longhouse
Slave codes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
5. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Indentured servant
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Indian slaves
Lord Del la Warr
6. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
King Phillip II of Spain
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
1685
7. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
John Rolfe
Maryland
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
8. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Pocahontas
Slavery
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
9. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Protestant Wind
Maryland Act of Toleration
Barbados Slave Codes
10. England's population between 1550-1600?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Poulation explodes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
11. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Joint-stock company
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Could inherit husband's land.
Squatter
12. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
John Rolfe
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1712
13. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Protestant Wind
Georgia
Could inherit husband's land.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
14. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Large amount of land and small population.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
King Phillip II of Spain
Sugar cane
15. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
60
16. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Longhouse
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
17. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Restoration
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1200
18. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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19. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
1685
December 1607.
Virginia Company
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
20. What was Savvanah known as?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Sea dogs
Melting Pot society
Slavery
21. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Georgia
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
North Carolina
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
22. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
23. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1685
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
24. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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25. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
60
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Slave codes
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
26. What were the '3 D's'?
Protestant Wind
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
December 1607.
Entail
27. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
John Rolfe
Virginia Company
Indian slaves
28. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Starving time
Water Raleigh
Primogeniture
29. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Indentured servant
Entail
1685
Royal charter
30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Near James River - easy to defend.
Maryland
Iroquois Confederacy
31. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
1685
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Water Raleigh
32. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
May 24 - 1607
James Oglethrope
33. What was a headright?
The middle ground
Lord Baltimore
Protestant Wind
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
34. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Large amount of land and small population.
Dismissed parliament
Poulation explodes
May 24 - 1607
35. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
Primogeniture
36. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
May 24 - 1607
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
37. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Melting Pot society
House of Burgess
Iroquois Confederacy
Starving time
38. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
1624
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
39. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Slave codes
Iroquois Confederacy
John Smith
Restoration
40. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1712
Slavery
Maryland
41. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Joint-stock company
The middle ground
Near James River - easy to defend.
Royal charter
42. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
May 24 - 1607
Maryland Act of Toleration
Slavery
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
43. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
King Phillip II of Spain
Iroquois Confederacy
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Starving time
44. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
yeoman
45. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
Pocahontas
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
46. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Sugar cane
North Carolina
Pocahontas
47. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Sea dogs
Longhouse
Water Raleigh
Nation-state
48. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Sugar cane
Large amount of land and small population.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
49. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Proprietor
60
Near James River - easy to defend.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
50. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Sugar cane
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Del la Warr
Melting Pot society
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