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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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2. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
James Oglethrope
Large amount of land and small population.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
3. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Barbados Slave Codes
Proprietor
4. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Georgia
Maryland Act of Toleration
Rebecca
December 1607.
5. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Rebecca
Royal charter
Iroquois Confederacy
Barbados Slave Codes
6. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1200
Powhatan
Lord Del la Warr
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
7. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Indentured servant
Rebecca
Large amount of land and small population.
Handsome Lake
8. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Longhouse
Sea dogs
9. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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10. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
Proprietor
Indentured servant
May 24 - 1607
11. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Squatter
Entail
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
12. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Water Raleigh
Entail
John Rolfe
Humphrey Gilbert
13. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Pocahontas
Subsidaries (money compensation)
14. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
John Rolfe
15. Who was most famous sea dog?
Maryland Act of Toleration
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
16. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Rebecca
Barbados Slave Codes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
17. When and who was Carolina founded?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Sea dogs
1670 - Lord Proprietors
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
18. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
60
Near large rivers
1200
Near James River - easy to defend.
19. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Lord Baltimore
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
House of Burgess
20. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Maryland
Near James River - easy to defend.
Lord Del la Warr
Could inherit husband's land.
21. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
King Phillip II of Spain
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
22. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
King Phillip II of Spain
Longhouse
23. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Proprietor
Lord Del la Warr
Water Raleigh
Georgia
24. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Sea dogs
Joint-stock company
Barbados Slave Codes
Maryland Act of Toleration
25. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Squatter
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Iroquois Confederacy
1712
26. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
December 1607.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
27. 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
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Nation-state
Joint-stock company
28. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Iroquois Confederacy
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
James Oglethrope
29. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Handsome Lake
Longhouse
Squatter
Subsidaries (money compensation)
30. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Squatter
Iroquois Confederacy
Joint-stock company
31. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Slavery
Maryland Act of Toleration
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1670 - Lord Proprietors
32. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
Sugar cane
Near James River - easy to defend.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
33. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
House of Burgess
34. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
Melting Pot society
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
35. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Virginia Company
1624
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Dismissed parliament
36. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Georgia
Rebecca
Slave codes
King Phillip II of Spain
37. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
The middle ground
Royal charter
Maryland
38. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Water Raleigh
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
39. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
House of Burgess
40. What caused religious civil war in England?
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41. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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42. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
The middle ground
John Rolfe
43. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
1200
Longhouse
1685
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
44. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Slavery
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Slave codes
45. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
May 24 - 1607
1624
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Entail
46. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
May 24 - 1607
Entail
Lord Del la Warr
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
47. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Royal charter
Lord Del la Warr
Squatter
Slave codes
48. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Entail
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Sugar cane
49. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Lord Del la Warr
Lord Del la Warr
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
50. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
North Carolina
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
December 1607.
Lord Baltimore