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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. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Primogeniture
Pocahontas
1685
King Phillip II of Spain
3. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Lord Baltimore
4. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
James Oglethrope
Entail
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Longhouse
5. When and who was Carolina founded?
The middle ground
Near James River - easy to defend.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Could inherit husband's land.
6. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
yeoman
Barbados Slave Codes
Primogeniture
Nation-state
7. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Indentured servant
1200
Restoration
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
8. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Barbados Slave Codes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
9. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Handsome Lake
Slave codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Dismissed parliament
10. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Indentured servant
Maryland
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Maryland Act of Toleration
11. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
John Rolfe
Rebecca
Humphrey Gilbert
Sugar cane
12. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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13. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Lord Del la Warr
Slavery
Large amount of land and small population.
James Oglethrope
14. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Primogeniture
Protestant Wind
Entail
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
15. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
John Rolfe
Near James River - easy to defend.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
16. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Royal charter
John Smith
Dismissed parliament
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
17. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
May 24 - 1607
60
Protestant Wind
18. What were the '3 D's'?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Starving time
1685
19. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
The middle ground
20. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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21. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Melting Pot society
60
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
22. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
John Smith
Humphrey Gilbert
yeoman
Protestant Wind
23. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Melting Pot society
North Carolina
Water Raleigh
24. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1685
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
James Oglethrope
House of Burgess
25. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Proprietor
1712
26. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Longhouse
Poulation explodes
Handsome Lake
1685
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
Large amount of land and small population.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
28. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Water Raleigh
John Rolfe
29. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
1712
December 1607.
Humphrey Gilbert
30. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
December 1607.
John Smith
Lord Del la Warr
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
31. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Slave codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Sea dogs
32. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Joint-stock company
yeoman
Restoration
King Phillip II of Spain
33. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Nation-state
Slavery
1200
Rebecca
34. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Starving time
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
35. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
House of Burgess
Sea dogs
Restoration
36. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Poulation explodes
Indentured servant
Powhatan
37. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
The middle ground
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
38. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
1624
Lord Del la Warr
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
39. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Baltimore
John Rolfe
40. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Royal charter
Powhatan
Dismissed parliament
Large amount of land and small population.
41. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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42. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Slavery
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Maryland Act of Toleration
43. What was Savvanah known as?
Protestant Wind
Melting Pot society
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Longhouse
44. Who was most famous sea dog?
The middle ground
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
King Phillip II of Spain
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
45. To limit property rights to eldest son.
House of Burgess
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Indian slaves
Entail
46. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1624
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Dismissed parliament
47. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
King Phillip II of Spain
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
48. When was Jamestown founded?
Entail
May 24 - 1607
Lord Del la Warr
1685
49. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Iroquois Confederacy
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
50. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
John Rolfe
Maryland
Starving time
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.