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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
John Smith
Entail
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Slave codes
2. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Humphrey Gilbert
Virginia Company
1712
Squatter
3. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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4. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Maryland
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Sea dogs
5. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
60
King Phillip II of Spain
May 24 - 1607
Pocahontas
6. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Starving time
Sugar cane
Restoration
Lord Del la Warr
7. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
60
John Smith
Slavery
8. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Could inherit husband's land.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1712
Proprietor
9. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Royal charter
1624
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
10. What caused religious civil war in England?
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11. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Rebecca
Nation-state
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Restoration
12. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Enclosure Movement
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
13. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Virginia Company
Powhatan
Slave codes
Water Raleigh
14. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
John Rolfe
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Indentured servant
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
15. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Restoration
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
16. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Water Raleigh
Restoration
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
King Phillip II of Spain
17. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Protestant Wind
Squatter
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
18. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Primogeniture
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Protestant Wind
19. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Iroquois Confederacy
North Carolina
Starving time
20. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Georgia
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Virginia Company
Pocahontas
21. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Entail
Sea dogs
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Del la Warr
22. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Water Raleigh
Restoration
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Lord Baltimore
23. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Near large rivers
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
24. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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25. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Squatter
Indian slaves
26. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Iroquois Confederacy
27. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Proprietor
Longhouse
Slave codes
Lord Del la Warr
28. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Virginia Company
60
1685
29. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
The middle ground
Joint-stock company
Enclosure Movement
30. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Rebecca
yeoman
Nation-state
1670 - Lord Proprietors
31. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Poulation explodes
Water Raleigh
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Slavery
32. What were the '3 D's'?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
33. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Humphrey Gilbert
Nation-state
Powhatan
34. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Sea dogs
Could inherit husband's land.
Slavery
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
35. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1712
Sea dogs
Slave codes
John Smith
36. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
House of Burgess
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
37. Who was most famous sea dog?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Pocahontas
38. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Melting Pot society
Primogeniture
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Powhatan
39. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
yeoman
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
40. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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41. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Rebecca
42. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Could inherit husband's land.
Water Raleigh
1685
43. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Nation-state
May 24 - 1607
Barbados Slave Codes
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
44. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
1624
Powhatan
Subsidaries (money compensation)
45. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Starving time
Handsome Lake
John Smith
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
46. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Handsome Lake
Enclosure Movement
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
47. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Sea dogs
yeoman
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Slave codes
48. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Lord Del la Warr
Maryland Act of Toleration
Powhatan
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
49. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Slave codes
John Rolfe
Entail
Maryland
50. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1685
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.