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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Near James River - easy to defend.
John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
2. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Lord Del la Warr
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Squatter
Powhatan
3. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
John Smith
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Lord Del la Warr
4. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
North Carolina
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
John Rolfe
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
5. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Maryland
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
6. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
The middle ground
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
North Carolina
1685
7. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
Handsome Lake
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Pocahontas
8. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
The middle ground
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Del la Warr
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
9. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Pocahontas
Primogeniture
Restoration
Royal charter
10. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Iroquois Confederacy
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Sugar cane
11. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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12. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Royal charter
James Oglethrope
13. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Barbados Slave Codes
Joint-stock company
Powhatan
14. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
John Smith
December 1607.
Primogeniture
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
15. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Enclosure Movement
North Carolina
16. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
17. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Lord Del la Warr
Powhatan
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
18. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
North Carolina
Poulation explodes
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
19. What caused religious civil war in England?
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20. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
yeoman
Sea dogs
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
21. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Indian slaves
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Indentured servant
May 24 - 1607
22. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Lord Del la Warr
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Royal charter
23. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Protestant Wind
Slave codes
24. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
John Smith
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Handsome Lake
Barbados Slave Codes
25. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Barbados Slave Codes
Lord Del la Warr
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
26. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Humphrey Gilbert
Lord Del la Warr
27. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Sugar cane
Slavery
Powhatan
Restoration
28. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Maryland
Handsome Lake
Joint-stock company
29. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Handsome Lake
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Maryland Act of Toleration
30. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Protestant Wind
Slave codes
Near large rivers
31. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Starving time
1685
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
32. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Joint-stock company
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
John Smith
33. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1624
1200
Subsidaries (money compensation)
60
34. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Lord Del la Warr
Lord Baltimore
December 1607.
Indentured servant
35. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
The middle ground
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
36. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
John Rolfe
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Squatter
37. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
Sugar cane
Melting Pot society
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
38. A country that is unified.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Enclosure Movement
Nation-state
39. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Maryland
Longhouse
Indentured servant
Rebecca
40. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Protestant Wind
Sea dogs
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
May 24 - 1607
41. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Indian slaves
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
May 24 - 1607
Subsidaries (money compensation)
42. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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43. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Dismissed parliament
Large amount of land and small population.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
44. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
John Rolfe
December 1607.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1685
45. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Protestant Wind
Proprietor
46. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Maryland
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
47. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
John Rolfe
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
48. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
1685
Rebecca
Joint-stock company
49. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Georgia
Dismissed parliament
John Rolfe
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
50. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
King Phillip II of Spain
1712
Water Raleigh
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony