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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Pocahontas
yeoman
Powhatan
Could inherit husband's land.
2. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Near large rivers
60
3. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Handsome Lake
Lord Del la Warr
Large amount of land and small population.
4. To limit property rights to eldest son.
John Rolfe
Protestant Wind
Entail
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
5. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Longhouse
Enclosure Movement
6. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Barbados Slave Codes
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
John Rolfe
Water Raleigh
7. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
The middle ground
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
8. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
1712
Lord Del la Warr
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1685
9. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Maryland
Starving time
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
John Rolfe
10. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Nation-state
Enclosure Movement
1200
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
11. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
1200
Proprietor
Starving time
12. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
John Rolfe
Georgia
Lord Baltimore
13. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Handsome Lake
1624
Subsidaries (money compensation)
14. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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15. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Protestant Wind
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
16. A country that is unified.
Barbados Slave Codes
Enclosure Movement
Nation-state
Virginia Company
17. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Lord Baltimore
Royal charter
Slave codes
18. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Dismissed parliament
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
19. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Indentured servant
20. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
1624
December 1607.
Sugar cane
Humphrey Gilbert
21. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Humphrey Gilbert
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
22. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Dismissed parliament
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Indentured servant
The middle ground
23. Who was most famous sea dog?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Indentured servant
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Nation-state
24. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
1624
Squatter
Barbados Slave Codes
John Rolfe
25. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
North Carolina
John Rolfe
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Handsome Lake
26. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Squatter
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
27. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1712
John Rolfe
28. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Slavery
Near James River - easy to defend.
29. What were the '3 D's'?
North Carolina
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
May 24 - 1607
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
30. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Lord Del la Warr
Slave codes
John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
31. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Restoration
Virginia Company
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Water Raleigh
32. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Sugar cane
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Powhatan
33. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Near large rivers
Maryland
King Phillip II of Spain
34. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Could inherit husband's land.
Dismissed parliament
North Carolina
35. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
North Carolina
Restoration
1624
1685
36. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
60
Virginia Company
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
37. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Near James River - easy to defend.
1685
Could inherit husband's land.
Indian slaves
38. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
James Oglethrope
1685
Rebecca
39. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Iroquois Confederacy
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Humphrey Gilbert
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
40. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Protestant Wind
41. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Royal charter
Indentured servant
Lord Del la Warr
42. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Rebecca
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Handsome Lake
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
43. What was a headright?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Indian slaves
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Near James River - easy to defend.
44. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Slave codes
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
45. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
1685
Joint-stock company
46. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
60
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Lord Del la Warr
Near James River - easy to defend.
47. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Royal charter
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Pocahontas
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
48. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Barbados Slave Codes
60
Pocahontas
Large amount of land and small population.
49. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
House of Burgess
Lord Baltimore
50. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.