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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Poulation explodes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Entail
December 1607.
2. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Lord Baltimore
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Near large rivers
Poulation explodes
3. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Lord Del la Warr
1685
Indian slaves
4. How many settlers survived the starving time?
House of Burgess
60
Entail
Restoration
5. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Pocahontas
Nation-state
Georgia
1670 - Lord Proprietors
6. Who was most famous sea dog?
North Carolina
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Sugar cane
7. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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8. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
1670 - Lord Proprietors
John Smith
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
9. What was a headright?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
House of Burgess
North Carolina
10. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
December 1607.
Rebecca
Indentured servant
Near James River - easy to defend.
11. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Maryland Act of Toleration
Powhatan
Lord Del la Warr
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
12. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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13. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Entail
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
John Rolfe
14. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
60
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Nation-state
15. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Near large rivers
The middle ground
16. 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
The middle ground
North Carolina
Near James River - easy to defend.
17. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Large amount of land and small population.
Entail
Starving time
Near large rivers
18. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Maryland
Barbados Slave Codes
19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Protestant Wind
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
John Smith
John Rolfe
20. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
60
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
yeoman
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
21. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Large amount of land and small population.
Indentured servant
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Water Raleigh
22. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
1200
Enclosure Movement
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
23. What was Savvanah known as?
Joint-stock company
Melting Pot society
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
24. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Slave codes
Slavery
Lord Del la Warr
25. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Poulation explodes
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
26. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Large amount of land and small population.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Primogeniture
27. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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28. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
The middle ground
May 24 - 1607
yeoman
29. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Poulation explodes
30. What did Charles I do in 1629?
1624
Dismissed parliament
Slave codes
Longhouse
31. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
House of Burgess
Lord Baltimore
Royal charter
Indian slaves
32. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Poulation explodes
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
33. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
King Phillip II of Spain
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
North Carolina
Joint-stock company
34. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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35. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Royal charter
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
36. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
60
Near large rivers
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Restoration
37. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
King Phillip II of Spain
Enclosure Movement
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
38. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Lord Del la Warr
Sugar cane
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
39. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Near James River - easy to defend.
James Oglethrope
Maryland
40. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
King Phillip II of Spain
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
41. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
The middle ground
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
Lord Baltimore
42. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Primogeniture
Slavery
North Carolina
December 1607.
43. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
1712
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Handsome Lake
44. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Indian slaves
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
45. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Large amount of land and small population.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
60
North Carolina
46. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Lord Baltimore
Handsome Lake
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
47. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Maryland
Rebecca
48. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Handsome Lake
Maryland
Virginia Company
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
49. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
1200
Longhouse
Entail
Lord Del la Warr
50. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
yeoman
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
John Rolfe