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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Near large rivers
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
North Carolina
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
2. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Indentured servant
Pocahontas
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
3. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Restoration
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1712
Dismissed parliament
4. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Lord Del la Warr
Maryland Act of Toleration
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
5. What were the '3 D's'?
May 24 - 1607
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Primogeniture
Lord Del la Warr
6. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Proprietor
Indian slaves
Protestant Wind
7. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
North Carolina
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
8. 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
Barbados Slave Codes
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Royal charter
9. What was a headright?
Melting Pot society
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
10. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Sugar cane
Indian slaves
Melting Pot society
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
11. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Indentured servant
Poulation explodes
Dismissed parliament
12. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Enclosure Movement
Pocahontas
Slave codes
Slavery
13. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
60
Squatter
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Nation-state
14. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1200
Protestant Wind
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
15. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
North Carolina
John Smith
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Near James River - easy to defend.
16. A country that is unified.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Nation-state
1685
17. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Rebecca
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
The middle ground
18. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Handsome Lake
John Smith
Iroquois Confederacy
19. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
North Carolina
Slavery
John Rolfe
Iroquois Confederacy
20. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1712
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Indian slaves
Sea dogs
21. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Slave codes
Pocahontas
22. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Baltimore
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Joint-stock company
23. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
James Oglethrope
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
24. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Enclosure Movement
Maryland
Rebecca
25. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Virginia Company
The middle ground
26. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Starving time
Slave codes
Nation-state
Lord Del la Warr
27. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Royal charter
King Phillip II of Spain
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
28. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Indian slaves
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Primogeniture
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
29. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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31. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Handsome Lake
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Maryland Act of Toleration
32. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Lord Baltimore
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
33. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Squatter
34. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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35. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Del la Warr
Poulation explodes
Restoration
36. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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37. What caused religious civil war in England?
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38. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Restoration
May 24 - 1607
Royal charter
King Phillip II of Spain
39. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Enclosure Movement
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
40. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Protestant Wind
Indentured servant
yeoman
Humphrey Gilbert
41. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Sugar cane
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Lord Del la Warr
Iroquois Confederacy
42. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
House of Burgess
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1712
43. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Squatter
Virginia Company
Nation-state
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
John Rolfe
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Near large rivers
45. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Slavery
Squatter
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
60
46. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
John Rolfe
Large amount of land and small population.
December 1607.
Lord Baltimore
47. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Longhouse
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Squatter
48. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Near large rivers
Powhatan
Lord Del la Warr
Maryland
49. England's population between 1550-1600?
60
Poulation explodes
North Carolina
Handsome Lake
50. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Sugar cane
December 1607.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Lord Baltimore
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