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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Near James River - easy to defend.
1624
2. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
House of Burgess
Slave codes
1685
3. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Near large rivers
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Primogeniture
4. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Near large rivers
James Oglethrope
Pocahontas
5. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Near large rivers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Indentured servant
6. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Water Raleigh
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
1200
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
7. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lord Baltimore
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Pocahontas
8. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
Humphrey Gilbert
Sea dogs
60
9. England's population between 1550-1600?
Humphrey Gilbert
Iroquois Confederacy
Dismissed parliament
Poulation explodes
10. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Powhatan
Lord Baltimore
The middle ground
11. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
John Rolfe
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Royal charter
Humphrey Gilbert
12. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Powhatan
House of Burgess
Indentured servant
13. What were the '3 D's'?
Humphrey Gilbert
Near James River - easy to defend.
Maryland
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
14. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Handsome Lake
Powhatan
North Carolina
Maryland Act of Toleration
15. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1712
1670 - Lord Proprietors
16. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
1624
Georgia
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Restoration
17. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
James Oglethrope
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
John Rolfe
18. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Maryland
1685
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Slavery
19. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Barbados Slave Codes
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
20. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Lord Del la Warr
1685
Royal charter
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
21. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
North Carolina
Indian slaves
Sea dogs
22. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Poulation explodes
Large amount of land and small population.
23. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Large amount of land and small population.
North Carolina
Water Raleigh
1712
24. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Entail
Barbados Slave Codes
King Phillip II of Spain
Slave codes
25. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Indentured servant
Maryland Act of Toleration
26. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
27. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Barbados Slave Codes
James Oglethrope
Restoration
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
28. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
29. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
May 24 - 1607
Slavery
The middle ground
King Phillip II of Spain
30. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Slave codes
Enclosure Movement
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Proprietor
31. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Starving time
Large amount of land and small population.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Sugar cane
32. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Protestant Wind
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
33. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Rebecca
Sea dogs
yeoman
Royal charter
34. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Handsome Lake
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
North Carolina
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
35. What was a headright?
Entail
Could inherit husband's land.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
36. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Virginia Company
James Oglethrope
Starving time
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
37. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
James Oglethrope
Longhouse
1200
Near James River - easy to defend.
38. 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
Indian slaves
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
North Carolina
39. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Iroquois Confederacy
Indentured servant
Indian slaves
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
40. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
North Carolina
John Smith
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
December 1607.
41. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Slave codes
Large amount of land and small population.
Indentured servant
42. What caused religious civil war in England?
43. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
The middle ground
Near large rivers
Subsidaries (money compensation)
44. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
The middle ground
1712
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
45. A country that is unified.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Nation-state
Sea dogs
1685
46. When was Jamestown founded?
Rebecca
Humphrey Gilbert
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
May 24 - 1607
47. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Water Raleigh
Indentured servant
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
North Carolina
48. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Indian slaves
1624
Virginia Company
49. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Restoration
Lord Del la Warr
Barbados Slave Codes
50. What was Savvanah known as?
Melting Pot society
The middle ground
Slavery
Indian slaves