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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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1. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?






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


3. A country that is unified.






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






5. To limit property rights to eldest son.






6. What unusual right did Southern women have?


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






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






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






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






11. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?






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






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






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






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






16. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.






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






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






19. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River






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






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






22. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?


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






24. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.






25. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.






26. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.






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






28. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?






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






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






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






32. When was Jamestown founded?






33. What did Charles I do in 1629?






34. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River






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






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






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






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






39. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.






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






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






42. Impact of Enclosure Movement?


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






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






45. What were the '3 D's'?






46. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.






47. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.






48. What caused religious civil war in England?


49. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.






50. What did the south have a lot of and less of?