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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Squatter
Longhouse
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
2. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Royal charter
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
3. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
1685
Indentured servant
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Restoration
4. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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5. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Melting Pot society
James Oglethrope
Barbados Slave Codes
6. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Enclosure Movement
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Slavery
7. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Near James River - easy to defend.
Slavery
John Smith
8. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Handsome Lake
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Squatter
9. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
Barbados Slave Codes
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
10. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Near James River - easy to defend.
December 1607.
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
11. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Humphrey Gilbert
James Oglethrope
John Rolfe
12. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Royal charter
Nation-state
Restoration
Entail
13. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
Entail
Powhatan
14. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Georgia
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Iroquois Confederacy
Sugar cane
15. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Rebecca
16. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
James Oglethrope
Virginia Company
Enclosure Movement
17. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Entail
Joint-stock company
The middle ground
18. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
1712
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Sugar cane
19. To limit property rights to eldest son.
King Phillip II of Spain
Entail
Large amount of land and small population.
Restoration
20. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Slave codes
21. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Virginia Company
Powhatan
Slave codes
22. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Smith
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1200
23. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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24. Who was most famous sea dog?
Royal charter
Near James River - easy to defend.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
25. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Primogeniture
Subsidaries (money compensation)
King Phillip II of Spain
Entail
26. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Proprietor
27. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Nation-state
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lord Del la Warr
28. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
King Phillip II of Spain
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Iroquois Confederacy
29. What caused religious civil war in England?
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30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Nation-state
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
December 1607.
Enclosure Movement
31. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1712
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
32. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Rebecca
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
33. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Barbados Slave Codes
Proprietor
Indian slaves
34. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Humphrey Gilbert
1670 - Lord Proprietors
John Rolfe
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
35. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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36. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
Restoration
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Could inherit husband's land.
37. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
John Rolfe
1712
Handsome Lake
38. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Could inherit husband's land.
Rebecca
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
39. What were the '3 D's'?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Barbados Slave Codes
December 1607.
40. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
1712
King Phillip II of Spain
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Could inherit husband's land.
41. When and who was Carolina founded?
May 24 - 1607
Starving time
James Oglethrope
1670 - Lord Proprietors
42. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Sugar cane
Powhatan
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
43. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Iroquois Confederacy
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
North Carolina
44. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Indian slaves
45. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Georgia
John Smith
Longhouse
46. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Handsome Lake
Near James River - easy to defend.
Humphrey Gilbert
47. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Enclosure Movement
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Poulation explodes
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
48. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Water Raleigh
1685
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Dismissed parliament
49. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
Protestant Wind
Powhatan
Starving time
50. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Indian slaves
Georgia
Rebecca
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain