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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Iroquois Confederacy
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
2. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Starving time
3. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
John Rolfe
Poulation explodes
Lord Baltimore
Slave codes
4. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Primogeniture
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
5. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Large amount of land and small population.
Nation-state
Dismissed parliament
Longhouse
6. England's population between 1550-1600?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Poulation explodes
Primogeniture
7. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Melting Pot society
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Indentured servant
Near James River - easy to defend.
8. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Protestant Wind
Pocahontas
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Powhatan
9. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Dismissed parliament
Enclosure Movement
Maryland Act of Toleration
Slavery
10. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Lord Del la Warr
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
11. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
Primogeniture
Protestant Wind
Joint-stock company
12. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Poulation explodes
House of Burgess
Enclosure Movement
13. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Enclosure Movement
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Dismissed parliament
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
14. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
60
Melting Pot society
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
15. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
December 1607.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
16. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
60
Longhouse
Rebecca
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
17. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Large amount of land and small population.
Entail
Near James River - easy to defend.
18. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
19. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Indian slaves
Maryland
Subsidaries (money compensation)
20. Who was most famous sea dog?
Starving time
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lord Baltimore
21. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Restoration
Georgia
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1200
22. When and who was Carolina founded?
Slavery
1200
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Entail
23. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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24. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Starving time
Lord Del la Warr
1685
Maryland Act of Toleration
25. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Virginia Company
Iroquois Confederacy
Slave codes
26. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Enclosure Movement
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Proprietor
27. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Longhouse
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Sugar cane
28. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Maryland
Near James River - easy to defend.
Large amount of land and small population.
29. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
North Carolina
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Near large rivers
30. What caused religious civil war in England?
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31. What were the '3 D's'?
yeoman
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Humphrey Gilbert
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
32. 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
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
December 1607.
33. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
yeoman
Lord Baltimore
Near large rivers
Royal charter
34. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Barbados Slave Codes
Sea dogs
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Restoration
35. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Squatter
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
House of Burgess
36. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1712
Slave codes
Slavery
1200
37. When was Jamestown founded?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
May 24 - 1607
James Oglethrope
1670 - Lord Proprietors
38. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
Virginia Company
1624
Iroquois Confederacy
39. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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40. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Powhatan
Melting Pot society
John Rolfe
41. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Virginia Company
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Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
42. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Sea dogs
Handsome Lake
James Oglethrope
Pocahontas
43. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1624
44. What was Savvanah known as?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lord Del la Warr
Melting Pot society
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
45. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Could inherit husband's land.
Joint-stock company
Lord Del la Warr
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
46. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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47. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1712
Water Raleigh
Dismissed parliament
48. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Maryland
King Phillip II of Spain
Lord Baltimore
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
49. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
John Rolfe
Proprietor
Primogeniture
Large amount of land and small population.
50. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Royal charter
Virginia Company