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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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2. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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3. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Georgia
4. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Joint-stock company
1670 - Lord Proprietors
1712
5. A country that is unified.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Nation-state
Squatter
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
6. What was a headright?
Poulation explodes
Water Raleigh
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
yeoman
7. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Rebecca
King Phillip II of Spain
1670 - Lord Proprietors
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
8. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Melting Pot society
Slave codes
John Rolfe
9. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Humphrey Gilbert
Maryland
December 1607.
10. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Sea dogs
Protestant Wind
Poulation explodes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
11. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Near large rivers
Proprietor
House of Burgess
Subsidaries (money compensation)
12. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
60
The middle ground
yeoman
13. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
December 1607.
Joint-stock company
Near large rivers
1712
14. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Indentured servant
Water Raleigh
15. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
December 1607.
Indian slaves
Nation-state
16. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Melting Pot society
17. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
John Smith
1685
Nation-state
18. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Sea dogs
John Smith
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
1624
19. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
1200
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
James Oglethrope
Maryland
20. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
May 24 - 1607
Maryland Act of Toleration
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Water Raleigh
21. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Powhatan
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Protestant Wind
John Rolfe
22. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Longhouse
Near large rivers
December 1607.
Lord Del la Warr
23. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Georgia
John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
Enclosure Movement
24. What did Charles I do in 1629?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lord Del la Warr
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Dismissed parliament
25. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Slave codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
26. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Rolfe
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Maryland Act of Toleration
27. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1712
King Phillip II of Spain
Humphrey Gilbert
28. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
Iroquois Confederacy
Large amount of land and small population.
29. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
1712
Primogeniture
1685
Powhatan
30. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Near James River - easy to defend.
1624
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Lord Baltimore
31. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
1712
Near large rivers
Georgia
32. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
Near James River - easy to defend.
December 1607.
Protestant Wind
33. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Slave codes
34. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Powhatan
Lord Del la Warr
1712
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
35. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
December 1607.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
36. What were the '3 D's'?
Slavery
Enclosure Movement
Indentured servant
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
37. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Water Raleigh
Indian slaves
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
38. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
John Rolfe
Iroquois Confederacy
39. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Protestant Wind
Dismissed parliament
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
40. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
December 1607.
Powhatan
Entail
41. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Royal charter
Sea dogs
Proprietor
North Carolina
42. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Sugar cane
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Powhatan
43. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Nation-state
Slave codes
Indentured servant
Barbados Slave Codes
44. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Subsidaries (money compensation)
House of Burgess
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
45. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Lord Del la Warr
Georgia
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
House of Burgess
46. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Indentured servant
The middle ground
House of Burgess
John Rolfe
47. What caused religious civil war in England?
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48. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Proprietor
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Entail
49. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Proprietor
1624
Slave codes
Pocahontas
50. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Virginia Company
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.