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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Iroquois Confederacy
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
2. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
1712
Indentured servant
Sea dogs
1685
3. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Dismissed parliament
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Pocahontas
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
4. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Slave codes
Large amount of land and small population.
Indentured servant
yeoman
5. England's population between 1550-1600?
Joint-stock company
Slave codes
Poulation explodes
Could inherit husband's land.
6. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Melting Pot society
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lord Del la Warr
7. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
The middle ground
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Lord Del la Warr
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
8. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
May 24 - 1607
Handsome Lake
Enclosure Movement
Poulation explodes
9. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Longhouse
James Oglethrope
Royal charter
Enclosure Movement
10. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Georgia
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
11. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
December 1607.
1200
1624
John Rolfe
12. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Nation-state
Starving time
John Rolfe
13. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
14. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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15. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
James Oglethrope
1200
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
16. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Starving time
Slave codes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
17. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Enclosure Movement
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Could inherit husband's land.
Proprietor
18. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Primogeniture
Nation-state
Virginia Company
Subsidaries (money compensation)
19. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Primogeniture
20. A country that is unified.
North Carolina
Nation-state
Poulation explodes
Humphrey Gilbert
21. What caused religious civil war in England?
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22. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Primogeniture
Humphrey Gilbert
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
23. To limit property rights to eldest son.
1712
Entail
Powhatan
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
24. When and who was Carolina founded?
Protestant Wind
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1670 - Lord Proprietors
25. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lord Del la Warr
yeoman
26. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
John Rolfe
Poulation explodes
1624
Georgia
27. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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28. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
The middle ground
North Carolina
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Near large rivers
29. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Sea dogs
Barbados Slave Codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Pocahontas
30. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
1712
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Maryland
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
31. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Slavery
Royal charter
Protestant Wind
32. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Starving time
33. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Primogeniture
1685
Humphrey Gilbert
34. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Joint-stock company
Slave codes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
35. 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
yeoman
Joint-stock company
Georgia
36. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
60
May 24 - 1607
Starving time
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
37. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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38. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Georgia
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
39. What were the '3 D's'?
Barbados Slave Codes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Rebecca
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
40. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
60
Sugar cane
Rebecca
Water Raleigh
41. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Joint-stock company
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
yeoman
42. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Rebecca
1670 - Lord Proprietors
1712
Restoration
43. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Baltimore
Water Raleigh
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
44. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Entail
Royal charter
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
45. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Water Raleigh
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
46. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Pocahontas
Georgia
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1624
47. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Rebecca
Nation-state
May 24 - 1607
48. When was Jamestown founded?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
May 24 - 1607
Slavery
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
49. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
John Smith
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Barbados Slave Codes
50. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Near large rivers
yeoman