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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1200
Could inherit husband's land.
December 1607.
Sea dogs
2. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Near large rivers
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
60
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
3. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Slave codes
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Sugar cane
4. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Lord Del la Warr
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Enclosure Movement
Starving time
5. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Large amount of land and small population.
Virginia Company
Poulation explodes
6. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
yeoman
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
7. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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8. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
James Oglethrope
Rebecca
House of Burgess
Pocahontas
9. 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
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Sea dogs
10. A country that is unified.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Nation-state
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
December 1607.
11. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1685
King Phillip II of Spain
12. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Poulation explodes
Entail
Proprietor
13. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
North Carolina
Georgia
Could inherit husband's land.
14. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Proprietor
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Humphrey Gilbert
Entail
15. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
James Oglethrope
Royal charter
Maryland Act of Toleration
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
16. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Barbados Slave Codes
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Rebecca
17. England's population between 1550-1600?
Virginia Company
Powhatan
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Poulation explodes
18. What was Savvanah known as?
Slavery
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Joint-stock company
Melting Pot society
19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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20. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Georgia
Entail
Sugar cane
Subsidaries (money compensation)
21. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
1712
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Powhatan
Proprietor
22. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Handsome Lake
Could inherit husband's land.
23. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Could inherit husband's land.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Water Raleigh
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
24. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Barbados Slave Codes
1712
Joint-stock company
Indentured servant
25. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Virginia Company
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
North Carolina
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
26. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Water Raleigh
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
27. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Royal charter
Maryland
Nation-state
1712
28. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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29. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Powhatan
House of Burgess
Georgia
30. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lord Baltimore
Slave codes
Virginia Company
31. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
Slavery
Indentured servant
Near James River - easy to defend.
32. What did Charles I do in 1629?
1685
Dismissed parliament
Iroquois Confederacy
Primogeniture
33. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
John Rolfe
Slavery
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
34. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Slave codes
Enclosure Movement
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Lord Del la Warr
35. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Georgia
May 24 - 1607
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
James Oglethrope
36. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Sugar cane
1685
Squatter
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
37. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Enclosure Movement
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Sea dogs
38. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Near large rivers
Sea dogs
Nation-state
39. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Restoration
Large amount of land and small population.
1624
Water Raleigh
40. What were the '3 D's'?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Iroquois Confederacy
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
41. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
John Rolfe
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Iroquois Confederacy
42. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Georgia
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Maryland
Protestant Wind
43. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1685
Iroquois Confederacy
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Indentured servant
44. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Virginia Company
Restoration
John Smith
45. When and who was Carolina founded?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
James Oglethrope
1624
1670 - Lord Proprietors
46. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
1624
Entail
The middle ground
Virginia Company
47. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Georgia
Squatter
Barbados Slave Codes
60
48. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Indian slaves
Humphrey Gilbert
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Maryland Act of Toleration
49. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Slave codes
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
King Phillip II of Spain
Joint-stock company
50. What caused religious civil war in England?
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