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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What was a headright?
Water Raleigh
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
2. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
House of Burgess
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
3. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
King Phillip II of Spain
Squatter
Restoration
4. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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5. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Squatter
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Pocahontas
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
6. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1624
Lord Del la Warr
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
7. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Powhatan
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Starving time
1685
8. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Powhatan
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Entail
9. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Sea dogs
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Protestant Wind
10. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
60
1685
Slave codes
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
11. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lord Del la Warr
John Smith
King Phillip II of Spain
12. What did Charles I do in 1629?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Dismissed parliament
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
13. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
The middle ground
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Maryland
1712
14. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
James Oglethrope
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1200
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
15. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
House of Burgess
John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
Starving time
16. When and who was Carolina founded?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Sea dogs
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
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
John Rolfe
18. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Squatter
James Oglethrope
Entail
19. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Royal charter
Primogeniture
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
John Rolfe
20. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Dismissed parliament
The middle ground
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1685
21. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Near James River - easy to defend.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
22. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Enclosure Movement
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
Humphrey Gilbert
23. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Iroquois Confederacy
1712
Rebecca
24. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
John Rolfe
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Subsidaries (money compensation)
25. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Maryland
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
26. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Poulation explodes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Squatter
27. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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28. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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29. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Restoration
Near large rivers
30. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
31. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Squatter
yeoman
Primogeniture
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
32. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Georgia
1712
Powhatan
John Rolfe
33. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
Virginia Company
Near James River - easy to defend.
Primogeniture
34. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Lord Del la Warr
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1624
35. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
December 1607.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Indian slaves
36. What caused religious civil war in England?
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37. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
John Smith
May 24 - 1607
38. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Slavery
The middle ground
Sea dogs
39. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Nation-state
Lord Del la Warr
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Indian slaves
40. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Melting Pot society
Proprietor
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
41. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Maryland Act of Toleration
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Indentured servant
1712
42. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
1685
John Smith
Lord Del la Warr
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
43. How many settlers survived the starving time?
North Carolina
60
Indian slaves
Sea dogs
44. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Protestant Wind
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Lord Del la Warr
45. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
1624
John Rolfe
James Oglethrope
46. What were the '3 D's'?
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
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lord Baltimore
47. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Large amount of land and small population.
Protestant Wind
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
48. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Dismissed parliament
Indentured servant
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
49. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Nation-state
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Barbados Slave Codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
50. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
James Oglethrope
yeoman
Handsome Lake
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.