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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
1685
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Near James River - easy to defend.
2. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
Pocahontas
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
House of Burgess
3. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Primogeniture
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
4. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Could inherit husband's land.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1200
5. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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6. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
John Smith
John Rolfe
Proprietor
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
7. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
May 24 - 1607
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Large amount of land and small population.
8. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Georgia
Slavery
North Carolina
Joint-stock company
9. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Primogeniture
Dismissed parliament
10. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Maryland
Indentured servant
11. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
60
12. England's population between 1550-1600?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Melting Pot society
Poulation explodes
Iroquois Confederacy
13. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
1685
Royal charter
Entail
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
14. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Iroquois Confederacy
Starving time
Melting Pot society
15. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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16. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Entail
Slave codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
60
17. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Royal charter
Sugar cane
Lord Baltimore
18. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
1712
Humphrey Gilbert
19. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Proprietor
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Rebecca
20. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Starving time
James Oglethrope
Enclosure Movement
21. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
John Rolfe
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1712
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
22. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Starving time
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
The middle ground
23. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Georgia
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
24. What were the '3 D's'?
Longhouse
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
25. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
1712
Large amount of land and small population.
Enclosure Movement
Lord Baltimore
26. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Sugar cane
1712
27. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
John Smith
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
28. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
December 1607.
Pocahontas
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
29. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Iroquois Confederacy
Indian slaves
Longhouse
30. What was Savvanah known as?
1685
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Melting Pot society
Starving time
31. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Royal charter
Sea dogs
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
32. A country that is unified.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Poulation explodes
Nation-state
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
33. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
December 1607.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
34. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
December 1607.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Humphrey Gilbert
35. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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36. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
Near James River - easy to defend.
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Baltimore
37. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Indentured servant
Proprietor
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Georgia
38. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Virginia Company
Barbados Slave Codes
House of Burgess
1712
39. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Near large rivers
Restoration
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Slavery
40. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Protestant Wind
James Oglethrope
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
41. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
John Smith
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Indentured servant
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
42. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
King Phillip II of Spain
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Starving time
43. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
Sugar cane
Indentured servant
1200
44. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Maryland Act of Toleration
John Rolfe
45. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
1200
Large amount of land and small population.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lord Baltimore
46. What caused religious civil war in England?
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47. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
Longhouse
48. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Near large rivers
49. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
North Carolina
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
The middle ground
Primogeniture
50. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
King Phillip II of Spain
Protestant Wind
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony