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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Georgia
60
Longhouse
Barbados Slave Codes
2. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Georgia
Near large rivers
Large amount of land and small population.
Could inherit husband's land.
3. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
yeoman
4. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Sugar cane
Maryland
Restoration
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
5. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Near large rivers
Nation-state
John Rolfe
Protestant Wind
6. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
John Rolfe
Humphrey Gilbert
1624
7. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Powhatan
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
8. What were the '3 D's'?
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Handsome Lake
Sea dogs
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
9. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Dismissed parliament
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
10. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
King Phillip II of Spain
Lord Del la Warr
December 1607.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
11. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
Slavery
Nation-state
Entail
12. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
North Carolina
Barbados Slave Codes
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Sugar cane
13. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Handsome Lake
Primogeniture
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
14. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Water Raleigh
Indian slaves
Sugar cane
John Smith
15. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
The middle ground
Indian slaves
Sea dogs
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
16. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Longhouse
Water Raleigh
17. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
James Oglethrope
Powhatan
John Rolfe
18. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Indentured servant
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
19. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Primogeniture
Large amount of land and small population.
Near James River - easy to defend.
1685
20. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Primogeniture
21. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Entail
Joint-stock company
Slavery
Nation-state
22. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Handsome Lake
Lord Del la Warr
1670 - Lord Proprietors
23. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
1624
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Virginia Company
24. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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25. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Indentured servant
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
26. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Royal charter
Protestant Wind
Water Raleigh
King Phillip II of Spain
27. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
The middle ground
1624
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Iroquois Confederacy
28. What caused religious civil war in England?
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29. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Longhouse
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
May 24 - 1607
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
30. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
Restoration
yeoman
December 1607.
31. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
James Oglethrope
Proprietor
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
32. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Nation-state
Starving time
Slavery
Sea dogs
33. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Rebecca
Dismissed parliament
Lord Del la Warr
34. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Indian slaves
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Lord Baltimore
Slave codes
35. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Entail
Virginia Company
Humphrey Gilbert
36. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Lord Del la Warr
King Phillip II of Spain
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
37. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Proprietor
Maryland Act of Toleration
December 1607.
Iroquois Confederacy
38. When was Jamestown founded?
House of Burgess
May 24 - 1607
Near James River - easy to defend.
Indian slaves
39. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
1624
1670 - Lord Proprietors
60
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
40. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Slave codes
Virginia Company
King Phillip II of Spain
41. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Indentured servant
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1712
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
42. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Nation-state
Longhouse
43. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Georgia
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
North Carolina
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
44. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Squatter
yeoman
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
45. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Indentured servant
Lord Baltimore
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
46. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Royal charter
John Smith
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
47. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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48. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Could inherit husband's land.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Maryland
49. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
December 1607.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Georgia
50. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
May 24 - 1607
James Oglethrope
1685