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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
The middle ground
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Georgia
Lord Baltimore
2. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Could inherit husband's land.
1712
December 1607.
3. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Lord Del la Warr
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Indian slaves
4. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
Squatter
Starving time
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
5. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Entail
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Rolfe
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
6. What were the '3 D's'?
Indentured servant
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Proprietor
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
7. A country that is unified.
Protestant Wind
Georgia
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Nation-state
8. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Starving time
John Smith
Enclosure Movement
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
9. What was a headright?
Near large rivers
Slavery
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
10. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
11. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Restoration
Entail
North Carolina
Barbados Slave Codes
12. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Rebecca
Nation-state
1624
Slave codes
13. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Pocahontas
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
14. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
15. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
1685
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Lord Baltimore
Sea dogs
16. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Rebecca
John Rolfe
Squatter
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
17. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
John Smith
Slavery
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Humphrey Gilbert
18. When and who was Carolina founded?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Squatter
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1670 - Lord Proprietors
19. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Slavery
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1685
Sugar cane
20. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Iroquois Confederacy
1624
1685
60
21. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Royal charter
John Smith
22. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
James Oglethrope
John Rolfe
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Maryland
23. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Maryland
24. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
North Carolina
1685
25. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Water Raleigh
North Carolina
Enclosure Movement
26. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
27. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Proprietor
Powhatan
1200
28. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
yeoman
Joint-stock company
29. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Starving time
John Smith
Sugar cane
Indian slaves
30. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
yeoman
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
John Smith
31. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Rolfe
John Smith
1685
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
32. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
James Oglethrope
Barbados Slave Codes
John Smith
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
33. What caused religious civil war in England?
34. When was Jamestown founded?
Joint-stock company
Handsome Lake
May 24 - 1607
Protestant Wind
35. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Entail
yeoman
Lord Baltimore
Lord Del la Warr
36. England's population between 1550-1600?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Virginia Company
Poulation explodes
Iroquois Confederacy
37. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Humphrey Gilbert
Longhouse
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Maryland Act of Toleration
38. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Rebecca
Near James River - easy to defend.
1685
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
39. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Powhatan
Longhouse
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Rebecca
40. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Could inherit husband's land.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Sugar cane
Rebecca
41. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Dismissed parliament
Water Raleigh
1200
Indentured servant
42. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Primogeniture
Near James River - easy to defend.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1624
43. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
Sea dogs
Rebecca
Sugar cane
44. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Lord Del la Warr
Enclosure Movement
Joint-stock company
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Water Raleigh
Nation-state
Royal charter
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
46. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Proprietor
60
Lord Baltimore
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
47. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Near large rivers
Sea dogs
48. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Georgia
Maryland
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Indentured servant
49. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
John Rolfe
Restoration
December 1607.
Pocahontas
50. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Enclosure Movement
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Lord Baltimore