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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Primogeniture
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Indian slaves
Entail
2. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
Pocahontas
Slavery
Starving time
3. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
John Rolfe
Indentured servant
Barbados Slave Codes
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
4. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
John Smith
James Oglethrope
5. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Large amount of land and small population.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Rebecca
6. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Royal charter
Enclosure Movement
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
7. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Lord Baltimore
Nation-state
Water Raleigh
John Smith
8. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
9. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Proprietor
May 24 - 1607
James Oglethrope
10. What was Savvanah known as?
60
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Handsome Lake
Melting Pot society
11. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Indentured servant
Starving time
King Phillip II of Spain
12. 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
Large amount of land and small population.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
13. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
Nation-state
Longhouse
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
14. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Squatter
Pocahontas
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
15. England's population between 1550-1600?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Virginia Company
Poulation explodes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
16. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Sea dogs
House of Burgess
17. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
John Smith
18. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Poulation explodes
1712
James Oglethrope
Near large rivers
19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Starving time
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Maryland Act of Toleration
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
20. A country that is unified.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Enclosure Movement
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Nation-state
21. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
yeoman
John Rolfe
Enclosure Movement
Restoration
22. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Lord Del la Warr
Nation-state
Squatter
23. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Sugar cane
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
60
24. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
John Rolfe
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
25. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Melting Pot society
Georgia
Slave codes
1624
26. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Joint-stock company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
27. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Sea dogs
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Lord Del la Warr
28. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
The middle ground
Pocahontas
Large amount of land and small population.
29. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Proprietor
Rebecca
Slave codes
yeoman
30. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Rebecca
Royal charter
31. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
North Carolina
32. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
33. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Near large rivers
Longhouse
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
34. What unusual right did Southern women have?
35. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Indian slaves
Near large rivers
36. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
John Rolfe
Iroquois Confederacy
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
37. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
James Oglethrope
Barbados Slave Codes
38. When and who was Carolina founded?
Barbados Slave Codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
Poulation explodes
1670 - Lord Proprietors
39. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
40. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Rebecca
Maryland Act of Toleration
Georgia
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
41. What was a headright?
May 24 - 1607
Entail
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
42. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Nation-state
60
Pocahontas
43. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
yeoman
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Maryland
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
44. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
James Oglethrope
Powhatan
Indentured servant
45. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Restoration
Sea dogs
Poulation explodes
46. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Royal charter
Iroquois Confederacy
Enclosure Movement
47. What were the '3 D's'?
Enclosure Movement
Longhouse
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Poulation explodes
48. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
December 1607.
Humphrey Gilbert
Large amount of land and small population.
49. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
Water Raleigh
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Pocahontas
50. What was Captain John Smith's motto?