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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
The middle ground
Proprietor
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
2. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
Maryland Act of Toleration
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
3. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
King Phillip II of Spain
Entail
Rebecca
John Rolfe
4. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Melting Pot society
Royal charter
Nation-state
North Carolina
5. To limit property rights to eldest son.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
King Phillip II of Spain
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Entail
6. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Proprietor
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Squatter
7. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Dismissed parliament
Large amount of land and small population.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
8. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1712
9. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Nation-state
Near James River - easy to defend.
Barbados Slave Codes
Maryland Act of Toleration
10. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
1624
Lord Del la Warr
Slave codes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
11. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Dismissed parliament
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Near large rivers
12. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
Joint-stock company
Nation-state
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
13. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
1200
Rebecca
14. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Proprietor
John Rolfe
Humphrey Gilbert
15. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
The middle ground
yeoman
King Phillip II of Spain
16. Who was most famous sea dog?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Nation-state
John Rolfe
17. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Virginia Company
Powhatan
Iroquois Confederacy
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
18. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Large amount of land and small population.
King Phillip II of Spain
Water Raleigh
19. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
John Rolfe
Longhouse
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Restoration
20. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
1712
21. A country that is unified.
Slavery
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Indentured servant
Nation-state
22. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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23. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Longhouse
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Water Raleigh
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 Maryland?
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26. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Could inherit husband's land.
Near large rivers
Lord Baltimore
House of Burgess
27. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
December 1607.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
28. When was Jamestown founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Maryland
May 24 - 1607
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
29. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
North Carolina
Poulation explodes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
30. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Powhatan
Lord Baltimore
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
31. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Poulation explodes
Joint-stock company
1624
32. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Indentured servant
Indian slaves
Pocahontas
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
33. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Barbados Slave Codes
Subsidaries (money compensation)
December 1607.
34. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Starving time
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
1624
35. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Protestant Wind
Joint-stock company
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
36. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Del la Warr
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
37. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Near James River - easy to defend.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Protestant Wind
38. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Squatter
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1624
Protestant Wind
39. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Indian slaves
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
40. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
1685
Sugar cane
Proprietor
41. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Protestant Wind
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
James Oglethrope
42. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
Maryland
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
43. What were the '3 D's'?
Rebecca
Nation-state
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
44. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
The middle ground
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Georgia
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
45. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Squatter
Powhatan
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
46. What caused religious civil war in England?
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47. What was Savvanah known as?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Melting Pot society
1200
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
48. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Virginia Company
Primogeniture
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Maryland Act of Toleration
49. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
House of Burgess
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Smith
Sea dogs
50. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Restoration
Water Raleigh
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.