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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
North Carolina
1200
John Rolfe
Large amount of land and small population.
2. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
3. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Sea dogs
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
4. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Lord Del la Warr
Restoration
1670 - Lord Proprietors
5. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Restoration
Virginia Company
Proprietor
James Oglethrope
6. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Handsome Lake
1200
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Barbados Slave Codes
7. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
Sea dogs
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Starving time
8. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1624
Iroquois Confederacy
9. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
10. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
1712
Royal charter
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Humphrey Gilbert
11. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Royal charter
May 24 - 1607
Longhouse
Poulation explodes
12. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Sea dogs
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Large amount of land and small population.
13. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
14. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Maryland
House of Burgess
Lord Baltimore
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
15. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Barbados Slave Codes
Royal charter
Lord Del la Warr
1624
16. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
May 24 - 1607
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Maryland
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
17. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Lord Del la Warr
Entail
18. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Lord Del la Warr
December 1607.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
19. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
North Carolina
1712
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
yeoman
20. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Water Raleigh
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
John Rolfe
Joint-stock company
21. What caused religious civil war in England?
22. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Starving time
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Enclosure Movement
Lord Del la Warr
23. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1624
Starving time
24. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Enclosure Movement
Lord Del la Warr
Primogeniture
25. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Handsome Lake
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
26. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Protestant Wind
May 24 - 1607
Squatter
December 1607.
27. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Poulation explodes
Dismissed parliament
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Entail
28. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
1712
Indentured servant
Slavery
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
29. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Water Raleigh
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Could inherit husband's land.
30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Slavery
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
31. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Entail
Indian slaves
32. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
1685
Restoration
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Starving time
33. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
King Phillip II of Spain
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Barbados Slave Codes
Large amount of land and small population.
34. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
The middle ground
Starving time
Iroquois Confederacy
Large amount of land and small population.
35. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Slave codes
James Oglethrope
36. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Iroquois Confederacy
Subsidaries (money compensation)
37. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
60
Handsome Lake
The middle ground
38. A country that is unified.
Starving time
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Nation-state
Slave codes
39. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Primogeniture
Near large rivers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Lord Baltimore
40. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Indian slaves
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lord Baltimore
1685
41. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Water Raleigh
Restoration
Dismissed parliament
Slave codes
42. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Iroquois Confederacy
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
43. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Subsidaries (money compensation)
James Oglethrope
Near large rivers
44. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Royal charter
Near James River - easy to defend.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
45. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Indian slaves
Subsidaries (money compensation)
House of Burgess
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
46. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
The middle ground
Maryland Act of Toleration
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Pocahontas
47. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
48. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Joint-stock company
60
Maryland
Sea dogs
49. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Could inherit husband's land.
Barbados Slave Codes
1685
Enclosure Movement
50. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
Pocahontas
yeoman
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony