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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
yeoman
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
2. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
John Rolfe
Near James River - easy to defend.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Royal charter
3. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Joint-stock company
James Oglethrope
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Proprietor
4. What did Charles I do in 1629?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Dismissed parliament
Nation-state
Lord Del la Warr
5. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
Poulation explodes
Large amount of land and small population.
Indentured servant
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
6. When was Jamestown founded?
John Rolfe
Restoration
Squatter
May 24 - 1607
7. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
Longhouse
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1200
8. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
King Phillip II of Spain
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
1712
9. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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10. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
Water Raleigh
Indentured servant
11. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River
Powhatan
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Slavery
John Rolfe
12. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Protestant Wind
Joint-stock company
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
60
13. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Indian slaves
John Smith
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
14. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Iroquois Confederacy
Slave codes
Indentured servant
John Rolfe
15. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
The middle ground
Protestant Wind
Subsidaries (money compensation)
16. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Baltimore
King Phillip II of Spain
17. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Georgia
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Lord Del la Warr
18. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Proprietor
Joint-stock company
Water Raleigh
Iroquois Confederacy
19. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Poulation explodes
Starving time
20. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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21. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
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Iroquois Confederacy
Joint-stock company
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
22. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Enclosure Movement
Squatter
23. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Squatter
Near James River - easy to defend.
Large amount of land and small population.
Lord Del la Warr
24. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
The middle ground
1685
Dismissed parliament
North Carolina
25. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
1200
Maryland Act of Toleration
26. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
King Phillip II of Spain
Indentured servant
Enclosure Movement
27. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
John Rolfe
Slave codes
Powhatan
28. What was a headright?
Primogeniture
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
29. How many settlers survived the starving time?
John Rolfe
House of Burgess
60
Slave codes
30. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Slavery
The middle ground
31. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
Near large rivers
December 1607.
Restoration
Enclosure Movement
32. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
1685
Near large rivers
John Rolfe
33. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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34. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Indentured servant
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Nation-state
1624
35. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
Rebecca
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
36. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
37. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
King Phillip II of Spain
Joint-stock company
Pocahontas
Longhouse
38. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Nation-state
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Entail
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
39. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Protestant Wind
40. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Iroquois Confederacy
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Maryland
41. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Rolfe
James Oglethrope
42. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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43. England's population between 1550-1600?
1712
Royal charter
Poulation explodes
Subsidaries (money compensation)
44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
James Oglethrope
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
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46. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
John Smith
Near large rivers
Slavery
May 24 - 1607
47. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Royal charter
Starving time
48. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Protestant Wind
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
49. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
Near large rivers
Sea dogs
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
50. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Lord Del la Warr
The middle ground