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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Dismissed parliament
Maryland Act of Toleration
Indian slaves
John Rolfe
2. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Lord Del la Warr
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
3. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Enclosure Movement
Lord Del la Warr
4. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Dismissed parliament
Proprietor
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
1200
5. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Squatter
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
6. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Rebecca
Virginia Company
7. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Maryland
Proprietor
Could inherit husband's land.
Slave codes
8. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Proprietor
May 24 - 1607
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Longhouse
9. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Large amount of land and small population.
John Smith
yeoman
10. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Enclosure Movement
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Nation-state
11. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Primogeniture
Longhouse
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
John Smith
12. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
Maryland
Water Raleigh
John Smith
13. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Rebecca
Near James River - easy to defend.
14. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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15. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Sugar cane
Slavery
1624
Pocahontas
16. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Protestant Wind
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
17. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
King Phillip II of Spain
Slave codes
Powhatan
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
18. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Georgia
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
19. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
North Carolina
Primogeniture
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
20. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Near large rivers
Barbados Slave Codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
21. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Indian slaves
Lord Baltimore
Melting Pot society
Virginia Company
22. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
May 24 - 1607
Handsome Lake
Slavery
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
23. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Virginia Company
James Oglethrope
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Protestant Wind
24. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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25. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Dismissed parliament
Slavery
26. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Pocahontas
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Rebecca
Restoration
27. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
House of Burgess
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1685
28. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Handsome Lake
Georgia
Water Raleigh
60
29. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Lord Del la Warr
North Carolina
May 24 - 1607
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
30. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Squatter
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
31. When was Jamestown founded?
May 24 - 1607
Handsome Lake
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
John Rolfe
32. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Pocahontas
Humphrey Gilbert
yeoman
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
33. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Indian slaves
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Starving time
John Rolfe
34. What was a headright?
Restoration
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
The middle ground
35. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
May 24 - 1607
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Virginia Company
36. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Poulation explodes
Joint-stock company
The middle ground
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
37. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Humphrey Gilbert
King Phillip II of Spain
38. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Longhouse
Slavery
39. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
House of Burgess
40. What caused religious civil war in England?
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41. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Joint-stock company
Handsome Lake
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
42. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Barbados Slave Codes
December 1607.
Iroquois Confederacy
1685
43. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
60
Royal charter
Starving time
44. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Phillip II of Spain
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Water Raleigh
45. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Poulation explodes
Entail
Iroquois Confederacy
Virginia Company
46. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
The middle ground
Lord Del la Warr
Nation-state
Virginia Company
47. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Large amount of land and small population.
Georgia
Squatter
1685
48. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Longhouse
Lord Baltimore
1685
Iroquois Confederacy
49. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Poulation explodes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Could inherit husband's land.
50. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
House of Burgess