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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Restoration
Longhouse
James Oglethrope
2. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Maryland
Rebecca
December 1607.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
3. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
House of Burgess
Squatter
Sea dogs
4. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Large amount of land and small population.
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
5. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
6. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
The middle ground
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Sugar cane
Handsome Lake
7. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
James Oglethrope
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
8. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Handsome Lake
Proprietor
Lord Baltimore
9. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1712
Enclosure Movement
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
10. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1712
yeoman
Enclosure Movement
11. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Subsidaries (money compensation)
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Slave codes
12. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Proprietor
Maryland
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Virginia Company
13. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
John Smith
Near large rivers
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
14. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
John Rolfe
John Smith
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
15. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
16. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Proprietor
John Rolfe
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
17. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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18. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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19. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Longhouse
Lord Baltimore
Sea dogs
yeoman
20. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Longhouse
1685
John Smith
21. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
December 1607.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Iroquois Confederacy
22. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Squatter
Primogeniture
Slavery
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
23. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
Primogeniture
Starving time
24. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Maryland
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Lord Del la Warr
25. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Powhatan
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Slave codes
26. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Handsome Lake
Joint-stock company
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
yeoman
27. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Melting Pot society
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
28. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Indian slaves
James Oglethrope
Sea dogs
Sugar cane
29. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
John Rolfe
Primogeniture
30. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Melting Pot society
Protestant Wind
Lord Del la Warr
31. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Lord Del la Warr
Lord Baltimore
1712
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
32. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Could inherit husband's land.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
33. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
Protestant Wind
Subsidaries (money compensation)
North Carolina
34. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Barbados Slave Codes
Indentured servant
December 1607.
35. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Royal charter
Water Raleigh
Barbados Slave Codes
Lord Del la Warr
36. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Sea dogs
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Restoration
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
37. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Humphrey Gilbert
Sugar cane
Squatter
38. What caused religious civil war in England?
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39. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Del la Warr
King Phillip II of Spain
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
40. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Could inherit husband's land.
41. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
John Rolfe
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
42. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
43. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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44. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Poulation explodes
Protestant Wind
Proprietor
45. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Slavery
Restoration
Near James River - easy to defend.
Slave codes
46. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Humphrey Gilbert
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Iroquois Confederacy
47. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Squatter
Protestant Wind
Dismissed parliament
Pocahontas
48. What were the '3 D's'?
Starving time
Handsome Lake
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
49. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Barbados Slave Codes
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Phillip II of Spain
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
50. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Lord Del la Warr
Virginia Company
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
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