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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
1200
Restoration
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
2. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Virginia Company
Water Raleigh
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
3. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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4. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Sugar cane
North Carolina
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
5. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Indentured servant
6. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Melting Pot society
Primogeniture
Humphrey Gilbert
Large amount of land and small population.
7. What caused religious civil war in England?
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8. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
North Carolina
Iroquois Confederacy
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
9. 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
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
10. 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
Iroquois Confederacy
60
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
11. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Dismissed parliament
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
House of Burgess
Slavery
12. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Sea dogs
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
May 24 - 1607
13. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Restoration
Melting Pot society
Sugar cane
14. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Sea dogs
Powhatan
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
15. Who was most famous sea dog?
Restoration
60
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
16. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Joint-stock company
House of Burgess
1200
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
17. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
House of Burgess
Rebecca
Powhatan
John Rolfe
18. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Barbados Slave Codes
19. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Longhouse
Near James River - easy to defend.
60
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
20. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Royal charter
Large amount of land and small population.
21. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Georgia
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Handsome Lake
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
22. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Subsidaries (money compensation)
The middle ground
23. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Squatter
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
24. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
House of Burgess
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Sugar cane
yeoman
25. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Squatter
Sugar cane
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
26. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Indentured servant
1685
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
27. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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28. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
John Smith
Virginia Company
Indentured servant
29. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Slave codes
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Protestant Wind
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
30. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Slave codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
1200
31. England's population between 1550-1600?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Melting Pot society
Poulation explodes
Proprietor
32. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Restoration
Entail
King Phillip II of Spain
33. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Maryland
1712
Royal charter
Restoration
34. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Rebecca
35. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
yeoman
Indian slaves
Dismissed parliament
Iroquois Confederacy
36. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Lord Baltimore
1685
Pocahontas
37. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Maryland
yeoman
The middle ground
Slavery
38. What was Savvanah known as?
North Carolina
Melting Pot society
Handsome Lake
Large amount of land and small population.
39. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Melting Pot society
Lord Del la Warr
40. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Barbados Slave Codes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
yeoman
41. What was a headright?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Enclosure Movement
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Starving time
42. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Lord Del la Warr
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Proprietor
Pocahontas
43. When was Jamestown founded?
Lord Del la Warr
May 24 - 1607
Poulation explodes
James Oglethrope
44. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Virginia Company
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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46. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
The middle ground
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
47. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
1200
Slave codes
Humphrey Gilbert
Georgia
48. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
Entail
Lord Baltimore
Proprietor
49. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
May 24 - 1607
John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Baltimore
50. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Squatter
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Restoration
Melting Pot society