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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was Savvanah known as?
Slavery
Lord Baltimore
Melting Pot society
1200
2. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Georgia
Large amount of land and small population.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
3. Who was most famous sea dog?
Lord Del la Warr
John Smith
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
4. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Could inherit husband's land.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Maryland Act of Toleration
5. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
60
Royal charter
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
6. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Melting Pot society
Handsome Lake
Near James River - easy to defend.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
7. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Royal charter
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
8. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Lord Del la Warr
1712
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
James Oglethrope
9. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
1685
King Phillip II of Spain
Pocahontas
10. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Water Raleigh
Lord Baltimore
Primogeniture
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
11. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
May 24 - 1607
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Near large rivers
Water Raleigh
12. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Slave codes
yeoman
13. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1712
Restoration
Virginia Company
14. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Melting Pot society
May 24 - 1607
John Rolfe
15. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Barbados Slave Codes
Dismissed parliament
Restoration
Humphrey Gilbert
16. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Sea dogs
Lord Del la Warr
Longhouse
Entail
17. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Near James River - easy to defend.
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
Humphrey Gilbert
18. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Water Raleigh
Lord Baltimore
Sea dogs
19. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Near large rivers
Barbados Slave Codes
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
20. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
21. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Iroquois Confederacy
The middle ground
Powhatan
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
22. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
23. To limit property rights to eldest son.
House of Burgess
Entail
December 1607.
John Smith
24. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
James Oglethrope
Large amount of land and small population.
25. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
1624
Melting Pot society
The middle ground
26. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
December 1607.
Barbados Slave Codes
1624
27. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1712
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1624
28. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Melting Pot society
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1200
29. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Lord Del la Warr
60
Handsome Lake
Water Raleigh
30. England's population between 1550-1600?
Maryland
Poulation explodes
Primogeniture
Virginia Company
31. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Could inherit husband's land.
Lord Del la Warr
Enclosure Movement
Handsome Lake
32. What were the '3 D's'?
Barbados Slave Codes
Restoration
Indentured servant
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
33. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
King Phillip II of Spain
Slave codes
Near large rivers
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
34. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Squatter
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
James Oglethrope
Sugar cane
35. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Could inherit husband's land.
Indian slaves
North Carolina
Water Raleigh
36. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Enclosure Movement
North Carolina
Entail
Powhatan
37. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Virginia Company
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
38. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
60
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
39. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Maryland
Sugar cane
House of Burgess
Sea dogs
40. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Georgia
Joint-stock company
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Maryland
41. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
60
Georgia
Primogeniture
42. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
1685
Lord Del la Warr
Humphrey Gilbert
The middle ground
43. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Dismissed parliament
Starving time
1685
Royal charter
44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Barbados Slave Codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Primogeniture
John Rolfe
45. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
King Phillip II of Spain
Melting Pot society
Iroquois Confederacy
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
46. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Lord Del la Warr
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Primogeniture
47. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
John Rolfe
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Squatter
May 24 - 1607
48. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
yeoman
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Proprietor
Iroquois Confederacy
49. What unusual right did Southern women have?
50. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Barbados Slave Codes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
North Carolina