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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Sugar cane
Starving time
Proprietor
Near large rivers
2. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Maryland
Nation-state
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
3. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
House of Burgess
Near large rivers
yeoman
Slavery
4. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Georgia
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
The middle ground
Nation-state
5. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Squatter
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Indian slaves
6. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Large amount of land and small population.
May 24 - 1607
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Squatter
7. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Joint-stock company
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Entail
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
8. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
John Rolfe
Maryland Act of Toleration
Maryland
Subsidaries (money compensation)
9. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Proprietor
Poulation explodes
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Enclosure Movement
10. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lord Baltimore
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Maryland Act of Toleration
11. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Entail
Poulation explodes
12. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Near James River - easy to defend.
Powhatan
Could inherit husband's land.
Near large rivers
13. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
60
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
14. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Primogeniture
The middle ground
15. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
1685
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
16. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Joint-stock company
Restoration
Handsome Lake
17. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Slavery
Sea dogs
1712
18. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
House of Burgess
John Rolfe
May 24 - 1607
Humphrey Gilbert
19. What was Savvanah known as?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Indian slaves
Slavery
Melting Pot society
20. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
Iroquois Confederacy
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Joint-stock company
21. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
Water Raleigh
Melting Pot society
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
22. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Indentured servant
Barbados Slave Codes
Maryland
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
23. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Pocahontas
Slavery
House of Burgess
24. 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
King Phillip II of Spain
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
25. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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26. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Rebecca
Longhouse
Nation-state
27. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
28. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Pocahontas
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
29. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Barbados Slave Codes
Dismissed parliament
yeoman
John Smith
30. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Royal charter
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
31. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
1624
Slave codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Sugar cane
32. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Indian slaves
House of Burgess
Entail
33. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Iroquois Confederacy
House of Burgess
Joint-stock company
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
34. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
King Phillip II of Spain
Joint-stock company
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
35. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Pocahontas
May 24 - 1607
36. When and who was Carolina founded?
Barbados Slave Codes
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
North Carolina
37. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Lord Baltimore
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
38. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Longhouse
Sugar cane
Primogeniture
1624
39. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
North Carolina
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Pocahontas
40. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Pocahontas
41. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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42. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Longhouse
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Powhatan
43. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
The middle ground
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Near James River - easy to defend.
44. Who was most famous sea dog?
May 24 - 1607
Slavery
Handsome Lake
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
45. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Large amount of land and small population.
60
Lord Baltimore
46. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
John Rolfe
Primogeniture
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
47. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Virginia Company
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
Iroquois Confederacy
48. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
North Carolina
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Longhouse
49. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
Water Raleigh
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Starving time
50. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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