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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Enclosure Movement
Powhatan
Humphrey Gilbert
Water Raleigh
2. When was Jamestown founded?
Dismissed parliament
May 24 - 1607
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
3. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Powhatan
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
4. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Virginia Company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
5. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Enclosure Movement
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Restoration
Georgia
6. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Lord Baltimore
Squatter
Joint-stock company
7. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lord Del la Warr
Georgia
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
8. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
1712
Indentured servant
Humphrey Gilbert
Large amount of land and small population.
9. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Protestant Wind
1624
Near James River - easy to defend.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
10. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
John Rolfe
1200
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
11. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Royal charter
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Joint-stock company
Enclosure Movement
12. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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13. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Poulation explodes
The middle ground
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Proprietor
14. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
60
1200
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Pocahontas
15. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
House of Burgess
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
16. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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17. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Protestant Wind
John Rolfe
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
18. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Near large rivers
Maryland Act of Toleration
Iroquois Confederacy
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
19. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Enclosure Movement
House of Burgess
Indentured servant
John Rolfe
20. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Indentured servant
1624
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
21. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
22. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Slavery
Sugar cane
23. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Maryland
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
24. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Georgia
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Rebecca
Large amount of land and small population.
25. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Starving time
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
May 24 - 1607
26. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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27. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Near James River - easy to defend.
Lord Del la Warr
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
28. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Barbados Slave Codes
29. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Rebecca
Royal charter
Sugar cane
John Rolfe
30. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Handsome Lake
Squatter
John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
31. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Handsome Lake
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Iroquois Confederacy
32. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Indian slaves
James Oglethrope
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
December 1607.
33. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
House of Burgess
60
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
34. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Entail
Subsidaries (money compensation)
North Carolina
35. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Barbados Slave Codes
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Sea dogs
36. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Starving time
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
North Carolina
Water Raleigh
37. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Maryland
Maryland Act of Toleration
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
38. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
House of Burgess
1200
39. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Longhouse
Subsidaries (money compensation)
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
40. England's population between 1550-1600?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Protestant Wind
Poulation explodes
41. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Large amount of land and small population.
1712
42. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Near James River - easy to defend.
James Oglethrope
43. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Indian slaves
44. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Indentured servant
Subsidaries (money compensation)
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Water Raleigh
45. What were the '3 D's'?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
1712
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
46. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Joint-stock company
Subsidaries (money compensation)
John Rolfe
House of Burgess
47. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
John Rolfe
48. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1624
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
49. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
North Carolina
Water Raleigh
Slavery
50. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
1712
yeoman
1200
House of Burgess