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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
House of Burgess
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
December 1607.
2. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Water Raleigh
1712
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
3. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Lord Del la Warr
1685
Maryland
Rebecca
4. England's population between 1550-1600?
Maryland
Poulation explodes
Virginia Company
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
5. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Pocahontas
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Indian slaves
6. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Water Raleigh
Proprietor
Iroquois Confederacy
Squatter
7. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
John Rolfe
Longhouse
Slavery
Restoration
8. 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
Indian slaves
Handsome Lake
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
9. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
Maryland Act of Toleration
Proprietor
The middle ground
10. Who was most famous sea dog?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1712
Maryland
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
11. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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12. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Proprietor
Indentured servant
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
13. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Slavery
Maryland Act of Toleration
Starving time
14. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Baltimore
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
15. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Lord Baltimore
King Phillip II of Spain
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Squatter
16. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Indian slaves
Near large rivers
Georgia
Lord Del la Warr
17. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Lord Baltimore
1712
Handsome Lake
Iroquois Confederacy
18. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Virginia Company
Lord Baltimore
19. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Protestant Wind
Lord Del la Warr
Could inherit husband's land.
Barbados Slave Codes
20. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Powhatan
Rebecca
Proprietor
Melting Pot society
21. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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22. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Barbados Slave Codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Powhatan
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
23. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Melting Pot society
John Rolfe
Proprietor
yeoman
24. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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25. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Indentured servant
May 24 - 1607
60
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
26. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Proprietor
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Virginia Company
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
27. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Primogeniture
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
28. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
Maryland Act of Toleration
29. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Powhatan
60
North Carolina
30. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
1685
Handsome Lake
Water Raleigh
31. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
King Phillip II of Spain
James Oglethrope
John Rolfe
32. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
Nation-state
Primogeniture
Dismissed parliament
33. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Georgia
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
34. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
1712
60
Squatter
North Carolina
35. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Indian slaves
James Oglethrope
Could inherit husband's land.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
36. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
North Carolina
Maryland Act of Toleration
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
37. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
The middle ground
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Maryland
38. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
Enclosure Movement
Sea dogs
39. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Iroquois Confederacy
Squatter
1712
Lord Del la Warr
40. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
yeoman
Near large rivers
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Squatter
41. What was Savvanah known as?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Entail
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Melting Pot society
42. A country that is unified.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Nation-state
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
43. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Lord Baltimore
Sugar cane
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
44. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Slave codes
Poulation explodes
Virginia Company
Royal charter
45. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
James Oglethrope
Starving time
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
46. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Slavery
Longhouse
John Smith
47. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Virginia Company
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Joint-stock company
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
48. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1685
Protestant Wind
Near James River - easy to defend.
49. When and who was Carolina founded?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
December 1607.
50. What caused religious civil war in England?
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