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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
60
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Proprietor
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
2. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Humphrey Gilbert
John Rolfe
3. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Slavery
Maryland Act of Toleration
1712
John Rolfe
4. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Powhatan
John Smith
Near James River - easy to defend.
Large amount of land and small population.
5. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
House of Burgess
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
James Oglethrope
6. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Sugar cane
yeoman
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Dismissed parliament
7. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
8. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Enclosure Movement
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
1200
John Smith
9. 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
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
Humphrey Gilbert
10. What caused religious civil war in England?
11. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Humphrey Gilbert
John Smith
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
12. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Starving time
Maryland Act of Toleration
Large amount of land and small population.
13. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Indian slaves
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Protestant Wind
Enclosure Movement
14. What did Charles I do in 1629?
1685
Dismissed parliament
John Smith
Indian slaves
15. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Rebecca
Near large rivers
16. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
1685
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Near James River - easy to defend.
60
17. 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
yeoman
Entail
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
18. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Melting Pot society
Lord Baltimore
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Handsome Lake
19. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Sea dogs
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
20. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
December 1607.
Rebecca
Joint-stock company
Starving time
21. England's population between 1550-1600?
1200
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Poulation explodes
22. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Maryland
Virginia Company
1200
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
23. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Rebecca
December 1607.
24. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Slave codes
Lord Del la Warr
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1712
25. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
1685
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Royal charter
26. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Sugar cane
Powhatan
Barbados Slave Codes
1685
27. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1712
Starving time
28. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Primogeniture
Indentured servant
May 24 - 1607
29. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Slavery
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
John Rolfe
30. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
December 1607.
Indian slaves
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Lord Del la Warr
31. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Large amount of land and small population.
Dismissed parliament
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
32. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Maryland
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
December 1607.
33. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Near large rivers
Indian slaves
Maryland
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
34. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Lord Del la Warr
Maryland Act of Toleration
Indian slaves
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
35. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
James Oglethrope
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Squatter
36. What was a headright?
Poulation explodes
Barbados Slave Codes
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
37. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Handsome Lake
May 24 - 1607
John Rolfe
60
38. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
39. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
May 24 - 1607
Barbados Slave Codes
The middle ground
1685
40. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Virginia Company
Indian slaves
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
41. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Water Raleigh
Rebecca
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1685
42. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Longhouse
60
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
43. Who was most famous sea dog?
Enclosure Movement
House of Burgess
May 24 - 1607
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
44. What unusual right did Southern women have?
45. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
John Smith
Barbados Slave Codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
46. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Proprietor
1200
Water Raleigh
47. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Baltimore
Handsome Lake
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
48. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Maryland Act of Toleration
Humphrey Gilbert
John Smith
49. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Powhatan
1685
Slavery
50. Impact of Enclosure Movement?