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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
North Carolina
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
2. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Sugar cane
Iroquois Confederacy
Maryland
Water Raleigh
3. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Maryland Act of Toleration
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
4. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Poulation explodes
5. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Restoration
Humphrey Gilbert
6. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Indian slaves
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Pocahontas
7. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
1712
8. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
John Smith
John Rolfe
9. England's population between 1550-1600?
Maryland
December 1607.
Poulation explodes
Virginia Company
10. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Maryland Act of Toleration
December 1607.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Lord Del la Warr
11. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
House of Burgess
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
12. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Georgia
13. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Primogeniture
May 24 - 1607
Sugar cane
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
14. 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
Maryland
Iroquois Confederacy
Squatter
15. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
James Oglethrope
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Enclosure Movement
16. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Pocahontas
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
17. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Longhouse
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
May 24 - 1607
North Carolina
18. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Indian slaves
Near James River - easy to defend.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
19. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Rebecca
Squatter
Water Raleigh
Slave codes
20. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Poulation explodes
House of Burgess
May 24 - 1607
Barbados Slave Codes
21. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Lord Baltimore
Maryland
Large amount of land and small population.
22. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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23. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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24. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Protestant Wind
Slavery
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
25. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
John Rolfe
1685
Joint-stock company
26. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
King Phillip II of Spain
Pocahontas
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
27. Who was most famous sea dog?
60
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
King Phillip II of Spain
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
28. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Longhouse
King Phillip II of Spain
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
29. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Pocahontas
Lord Del la Warr
December 1607.
30. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Barbados Slave Codes
Sugar cane
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
The middle ground
31. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Enclosure Movement
60
1200
32. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
James Oglethrope
Sugar cane
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
33. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Sea dogs
Powhatan
Barbados Slave Codes
yeoman
34. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Joint-stock company
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
35. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
King Phillip II of Spain
1685
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1624
36. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Enclosure Movement
Indian slaves
1712
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
37. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Enclosure Movement
Barbados Slave Codes
Large amount of land and small population.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
38. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
1624
John Rolfe
Poulation explodes
Dismissed parliament
39. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Iroquois Confederacy
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
North Carolina
40. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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41. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Could inherit husband's land.
Lord Del la Warr
Pocahontas
Squatter
42. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Maryland
Enclosure Movement
Dismissed parliament
Primogeniture
43. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
Barbados Slave Codes
Iroquois Confederacy
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
44. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Joint-stock company
Barbados Slave Codes
1624
Proprietor
45. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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46. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Nation-state
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
yeoman
Restoration
47. What was Savvanah known as?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
The middle ground
Near James River - easy to defend.
Melting Pot society
48. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1712
1200
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Rebecca
49. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1670 - Lord Proprietors
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
50. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Pocahontas
James Oglethrope
Georgia