Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who was most famous sea dog?






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






3. Impact of Enclosure Movement?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






6. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?






7. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?






8. What was Savvanah known as?






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






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






11. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?






12. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






15. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.






16. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.






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






18. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.






19. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.






20. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.






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






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






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






24. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?






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






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






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






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






29. When and who was Carolina founded?






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






31. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.






32. To limit property rights to eldest son.






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






34. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.






35. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.






36. What was a headright?






37. When was Jamestown founded?






38. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River






39. What was Captain John Smith's motto?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






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






43. What caused religious civil war in England?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






46. How many settlers survived the starving time?






47. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.






48. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments






49. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?






50. What did Charles I do in 1629?