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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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2. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Virginia Company
Near James River - easy to defend.
December 1607.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
3. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
1685
House of Burgess
Proprietor
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
4. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Enclosure Movement
Restoration
1670 - Lord Proprietors
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
5. Who was most famous sea dog?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Handsome Lake
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
6. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
House of Burgess
Melting Pot society
7. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
1685
Powhatan
1670 - Lord Proprietors
8. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
North Carolina
John Smith
1624
9. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Powhatan
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Entail
Near large rivers
10. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Restoration
11. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Starving time
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Barbados Slave Codes
12. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Sea dogs
60
13. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Protestant Wind
Squatter
Large amount of land and small population.
Virginia Company
14. When and who was Carolina founded?
Squatter
Indian slaves
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1670 - Lord Proprietors
15. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Sea dogs
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
16. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
1200
Water Raleigh
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1712
17. What caused religious civil war in England?
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18. What were the '3 D's'?
Melting Pot society
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
House of Burgess
19. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Humphrey Gilbert
Dismissed parliament
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
20. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
John Rolfe
Longhouse
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Iroquois Confederacy
21. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Enclosure Movement
Pocahontas
Lord Del la Warr
The middle ground
22. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Slavery
Near large rivers
December 1607.
23. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Sugar cane
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Near large rivers
24. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
House of Burgess
Indian slaves
Sugar cane
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
25. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Large amount of land and small population.
1200
Virginia Company
26. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
December 1607.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Large amount of land and small population.
27. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Dismissed parliament
House of Burgess
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
28. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Georgia
Large amount of land and small population.
yeoman
Iroquois Confederacy
29. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Enclosure Movement
Protestant Wind
December 1607.
Poulation explodes
30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Melting Pot society
Royal charter
Primogeniture
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
31. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Nation-state
Protestant Wind
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
32. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Pocahontas
Poulation explodes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
33. What was Savvanah known as?
Virginia Company
John Rolfe
Melting Pot society
Handsome Lake
34. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Indian slaves
Nation-state
1685
Slave codes
35. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Dismissed parliament
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
1200
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
36. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Indian slaves
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Proprietor
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
37. A country that is unified.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Nation-state
Sea dogs
38. To limit property rights to eldest son.
December 1607.
Slave codes
Entail
1670 - Lord Proprietors
39. How many settlers survived the starving time?
The middle ground
Longhouse
60
Georgia
40. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Pocahontas
1685
James Oglethrope
41. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Powhatan
Nation-state
42. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Georgia
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
43. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Indian slaves
North Carolina
King Phillip II of Spain
Pocahontas
44. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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45. 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
December 1607.
House of Burgess
Lord Baltimore
46. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Enclosure Movement
yeoman
47. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Joint-stock company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Barbados Slave Codes
48. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Sea dogs
Could inherit husband's land.
Poulation explodes
Rebecca
49. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Slave codes
The middle ground
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1624
50. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Primogeniture
Handsome Lake
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Indian slaves