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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?






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






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






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






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






6. What was Captain John Smith's motto?

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7. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?






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






9. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?






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






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






12. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River






13. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?






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






15. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.






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






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






18. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.






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






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






21. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?






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






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






24. What 4 important things happened in 1619?






25. How many settlers survived the starving time?






26. To limit property rights to eldest son.






27. England's population between 1550-1600?






28. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River






35. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.






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






37. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?






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






39. When and who was Carolina founded?






40. What was Savvanah known as?






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






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






43. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.






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






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






46. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?






47. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.






48. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.






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

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50. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?