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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Virginia Company
Humphrey Gilbert
2. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Entail
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
3. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Starving time
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Poulation explodes
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
4. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
The middle ground
Royal charter
James Oglethrope
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
5. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
John Smith
Melting Pot society
6. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Barbados Slave Codes
7. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
May 24 - 1607
Slavery
John Smith
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
8. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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9. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Pocahontas
King Phillip II of Spain
Royal charter
10. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1712
Longhouse
North Carolina
11. England's population between 1550-1600?
Iroquois Confederacy
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Poulation explodes
Entail
12. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
yeoman
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
60
13. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Maryland Act of Toleration
December 1607.
Pocahontas
Large amount of land and small population.
14. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Near large rivers
Slave codes
Handsome Lake
yeoman
15. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Could inherit husband's land.
John Smith
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
16. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
John Rolfe
Starving time
17. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
1624
John Rolfe
James Oglethrope
18. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lord Del la Warr
Indentured servant
19. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1624
Handsome Lake
Near James River - easy to defend.
20. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Sea dogs
Maryland Act of Toleration
Indentured servant
Joint-stock company
21. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Proprietor
Pocahontas
Enclosure Movement
22. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Indian slaves
John Rolfe
Water Raleigh
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
23. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Slave codes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
24. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Pocahontas
May 24 - 1607
25. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
House of Burgess
Enclosure Movement
1685
26. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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27. Who was most famous sea dog?
Longhouse
Dismissed parliament
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
28. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Near large rivers
Powhatan
Lord Baltimore
December 1607.
29. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Maryland
60
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
30. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
yeoman
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Proprietor
Squatter
31. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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32. When was Jamestown founded?
Primogeniture
May 24 - 1607
Nation-state
Slave codes
33. What caused religious civil war in England?
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34. When and who was Carolina founded?
Georgia
1670 - Lord Proprietors
yeoman
Virginia Company
35. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Slavery
North Carolina
King Phillip II of Spain
Sea dogs
36. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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37. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
John Smith
Near large rivers
Lord Del la Warr
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
38. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Slavery
Indentured servant
John Smith
Longhouse
39. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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40. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
John Rolfe
1200
Primogeniture
41. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Sugar cane
Humphrey Gilbert
1685
Lord Del la Warr
42. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Royal charter
Lord Del la Warr
Indian slaves
43. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Rebecca
Restoration
Humphrey Gilbert
44. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1200
The middle ground
Pocahontas
45. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Georgia
Protestant Wind
Pocahontas
Rebecca
46. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Sugar cane
Nation-state
Could inherit husband's land.
47. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Virginia Company
Joint-stock company
Squatter
North Carolina
48. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Squatter
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Maryland
49. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Protestant Wind
60
50. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Slave codes
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Protestant Wind
Longhouse