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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Water Raleigh
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
2. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Iroquois Confederacy
House of Burgess
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
3. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Humphrey Gilbert
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
4. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
1685
Pocahontas
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Slavery
5. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Virginia Company
Iroquois Confederacy
Protestant Wind
Joint-stock company
6. What caused religious civil war in England?
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7. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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8. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Rebecca
Near James River - easy to defend.
Barbados Slave Codes
9. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Primogeniture
Indentured servant
10. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Lord Baltimore
Royal charter
Starving time
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
11. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Enclosure Movement
Protestant Wind
Indian slaves
12. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Starving time
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Sea dogs
13. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Sugar cane
Entail
Near large rivers
14. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
1685
Longhouse
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
15. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lord Del la Warr
Sea dogs
16. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
John Rolfe
Water Raleigh
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
17. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
King Phillip II of Spain
The middle ground
Restoration
18. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Poulation explodes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
19. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Melting Pot society
Entail
John Smith
20. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Virginia Company
21. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Indentured servant
House of Burgess
Iroquois Confederacy
Georgia
22. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
23. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
60
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
24. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Sea dogs
Entail
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
25. When and who was Carolina founded?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Rebecca
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
26. How many settlers survived the starving time?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
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Powhatan
Maryland Act of Toleration
27. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Rebecca
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
28. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
December 1607.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
House of Burgess
29. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
1712
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Dismissed parliament
Poulation explodes
30. What were the '3 D's'?
Protestant Wind
Handsome Lake
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
31. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
John Smith
Restoration
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
James Oglethrope
32. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
yeoman
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Humphrey Gilbert
Subsidaries (money compensation)
33. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Maryland
Proprietor
Maryland Act of Toleration
Slave codes
34. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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35. England's population between 1550-1600?
Proprietor
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Poulation explodes
36. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
1685
Enclosure Movement
Iroquois Confederacy
37. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
John Smith
Rebecca
Proprietor
38. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
John Rolfe
The middle ground
39. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
40. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Handsome Lake
Sugar cane
Maryland Act of Toleration
North Carolina
41. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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42. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
Restoration
1712
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
43. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Slavery
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Starving time
December 1607.
44. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Slavery
North Carolina
Near James River - easy to defend.
45. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Virginia Company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
King Phillip II of Spain
Maryland
46. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
John Smith
House of Burgess
John Rolfe
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
47. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Slavery
John Rolfe
Near large rivers
48. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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49. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
December 1607.
Could inherit husband's land.
1624
Large amount of land and small population.
50. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
King Phillip II of Spain
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Large amount of land and small population.