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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Large amount of land and small population.
Nation-state
Georgia
1685
2. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Lord Baltimore
Pocahontas
Dismissed parliament
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
3. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
4. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
60
Sea dogs
1200
Dismissed parliament
5. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Starving time
1712
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Powhatan
6. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Maryland
Near large rivers
Slave codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
7. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
King Phillip II of Spain
Lord Del la Warr
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Maryland
8. What were the '3 D's'?
Dismissed parliament
Sea dogs
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Poulation explodes
9. Who was most famous sea dog?
House of Burgess
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
James Oglethrope
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
10. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Barbados Slave Codes
King Phillip II of Spain
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
11. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
Georgia
Sugar cane
December 1607.
12. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
The middle ground
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
13. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Could inherit husband's land.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
14. 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
Protestant Wind
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Melting Pot society
15. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Large amount of land and small population.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
16. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Slave codes
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Rebecca
17. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
December 1607.
Maryland Act of Toleration
18. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
1200
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Joint-stock company
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
19. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Joint-stock company
Indian slaves
Lord Del la Warr
King Phillip II of Spain
20. What caused religious civil war in England?
21. What unusual right did Southern women have?
22. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
John Smith
Enclosure Movement
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Georgia
23. When and who was Carolina founded?
Lord Del la Warr
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Slavery
Handsome Lake
24. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
King Phillip II of Spain
Squatter
Lord Del la Warr
25. When was Jamestown founded?
Slavery
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
yeoman
May 24 - 1607
26. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Longhouse
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Enclosure Movement
Lord Baltimore
27. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
May 24 - 1607
Virginia Company
Large amount of land and small population.
1685
28. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Lord Del la Warr
Handsome Lake
29. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Iroquois Confederacy
John Rolfe
North Carolina
Entail
30. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Water Raleigh
Entail
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
31. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
32. What did Charles I do in 1629?
May 24 - 1607
Dismissed parliament
December 1607.
Lord Baltimore
33. A country that is unified.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Nation-state
North Carolina
Joint-stock company
34. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
John Rolfe
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Longhouse
35. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
1200
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Longhouse
36. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Enclosure Movement
Maryland Act of Toleration
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
37. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Pocahontas
Squatter
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
38. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
James Oglethrope
King Phillip II of Spain
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
House of Burgess
39. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Near large rivers
Poulation explodes
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
40. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
41. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Protestant Wind
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
42. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
House of Burgess
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Maryland
43. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
Powhatan
44. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
Indentured servant
45. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Entail
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
Sugar cane
46. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Dismissed parliament
James Oglethrope
Handsome Lake
47. 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
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
The middle ground
Pocahontas
48. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Sea dogs
John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
Water Raleigh
49. England's population between 1550-1600?
Pocahontas
Entail
Poulation explodes
1624
50. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Indian slaves
John Smith
60
Rebecca