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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Primogeniture
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
2. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Proprietor
Starving time
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
3. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
Dismissed parliament
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
4. England's population between 1550-1600?
Starving time
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Poulation explodes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
5. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Royal charter
1200
Joint-stock company
1712
6. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Near James River - easy to defend.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Maryland
yeoman
7. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Barbados Slave Codes
Indian slaves
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
8. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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9. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
Squatter
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Iroquois Confederacy
10. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Protestant Wind
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Sea dogs
11. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Proprietor
Slavery
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Starving time
12. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
60
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
13. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Starving time
John Rolfe
Near large rivers
Proprietor
14. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Humphrey Gilbert
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lord Del la Warr
Powhatan
15. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Primogeniture
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1200
16. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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17. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
North Carolina
60
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Iroquois Confederacy
18. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Humphrey Gilbert
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Squatter
Water Raleigh
19. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Dismissed parliament
Slave codes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Maryland Act of Toleration
20. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Royal charter
Near James River - easy to defend.
Slave codes
Powhatan
21. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Virginia Company
May 24 - 1607
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
22. 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
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Proprietor
House of Burgess
23. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
Royal charter
Water Raleigh
Slave codes
24. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Slavery
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Maryland
Maryland Act of Toleration
25. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
North Carolina
Could inherit husband's land.
Pocahontas
Lord Del la Warr
26. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
Melting Pot society
Dismissed parliament
John Rolfe
27. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
North Carolina
Melting Pot society
Longhouse
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
28. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Enclosure Movement
1712
Handsome Lake
Maryland Act of Toleration
29. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Maryland
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Georgia
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
30. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Starving time
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1200
King Phillip II of Spain
31. When and who was Carolina founded?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Near large rivers
Lord Baltimore
1670 - Lord Proprietors
32. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Joint-stock company
1200
December 1607.
33. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Joint-stock company
Dismissed parliament
Iroquois Confederacy
34. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
King Phillip II of Spain
Maryland Act of Toleration
35. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Pocahontas
North Carolina
36. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Royal charter
Indentured servant
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Squatter
37. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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38. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Squatter
Longhouse
Enclosure Movement
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
39. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1624
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
40. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Iroquois Confederacy
1685
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
41. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
The middle ground
Powhatan
Humphrey Gilbert
Pocahontas
42. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Slavery
Indentured servant
Longhouse
Squatter
43. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Starving time
44. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
John Rolfe
Enclosure Movement
Restoration
45. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Sugar cane
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Protestant Wind
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
46. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Sea dogs
60
47. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Squatter
1670 - Lord Proprietors
James Oglethrope
Subsidaries (money compensation)
48. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Georgia
Protestant Wind
Dismissed parliament
49. What were the '3 D's'?
Restoration
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
North Carolina
50. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Entail
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Royal charter
Slavery