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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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2. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
John Rolfe
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Primogeniture
3. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
John Rolfe
Barbados Slave Codes
House of Burgess
North Carolina
4. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Pocahontas
Restoration
5. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Indian slaves
yeoman
6. What were the '3 D's'?
House of Burgess
1624
The middle ground
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
7. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Sea dogs
Squatter
1200
8. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Enclosure Movement
1200
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
9. 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
1200
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Joint-stock company
10. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Smith
Iroquois Confederacy
1712
11. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Indentured servant
Slavery
Proprietor
Lord Baltimore
12. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
1200
Powhatan
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Large amount of land and small population.
13. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Melting Pot society
Humphrey Gilbert
Large amount of land and small population.
Dismissed parliament
14. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Longhouse
Primogeniture
John Rolfe
15. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Entail
Restoration
Longhouse
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
16. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
1685
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
17. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Near James River - easy to defend.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Could inherit husband's land.
18. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
19. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
Lord Baltimore
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
20. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
December 1607.
Lord Del la Warr
21. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Iroquois Confederacy
Georgia
December 1607.
Nation-state
22. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Barbados Slave Codes
Large amount of land and small population.
Iroquois Confederacy
23. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
James Oglethrope
Near James River - easy to defend.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
24. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
1624
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Phillip II of Spain
25. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Humphrey Gilbert
26. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Slave codes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Entail
27. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Enclosure Movement
Powhatan
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Proprietor
28. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
December 1607.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Near James River - easy to defend.
Enclosure Movement
29. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
30. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Restoration
Slavery
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
31. How many settlers survived the starving time?
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
60
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
32. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Lord Del la Warr
Sugar cane
Royal charter
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
33. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Iroquois Confederacy
Restoration
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Virginia Company
34. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Maryland
North Carolina
Royal charter
Lord Baltimore
35. What was Savvanah known as?
Virginia Company
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Could inherit husband's land.
Melting Pot society
36. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Indian slaves
Dismissed parliament
Lord Baltimore
Georgia
37. England's population between 1550-1600?
Large amount of land and small population.
Poulation explodes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1624
38. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Enclosure Movement
Large amount of land and small population.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
39. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Poulation explodes
Nation-state
John Rolfe
Slave codes
40. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
May 24 - 1607
The middle ground
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Indentured servant
41. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Sugar cane
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Maryland
Melting Pot society
42. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
1624
Georgia
Primogeniture
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
43. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Handsome Lake
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
44. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Protestant Wind
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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46. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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47. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Near James River - easy to defend.
Proprietor
Pocahontas
48. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Dismissed parliament
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1685
49. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lord Baltimore
Indian slaves
Dismissed parliament
50. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Nation-state
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Joint-stock company