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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.






2. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.






3. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.






4. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?






5. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?






6. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?






7. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?






8. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?






9. To limit property rights to eldest son.






10. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?






11. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River






12. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?






13. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?






14. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?






15. What was Captain John Smith's motto?

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16. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.






17. Impact of Enclosure Movement?

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18. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?






19. When and who was Carolina founded?






20. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?






21. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?






22. A country that is unified.






23. When was Jamestown founded?






24. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.






25. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?






26. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.






27. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?






28. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.






29. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?






30. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.






31. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?






32. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?






33. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?






34. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?






35. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these






36. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?






37. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?






38. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?






39. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.






40. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.






41. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.






42. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.






43. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?






44. What caused religious civil war in England?

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45. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?






46. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?






47. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?

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48. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.






49. England's population between 1550-1600?






50. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.