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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
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
1685
Longhouse
Near James River - easy to defend.
2. A country that is unified.
Nation-state
Primogeniture
Near large rivers
60
3. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
House of Burgess
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
4. Who was most famous sea dog?
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
North Carolina
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
5. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
North Carolina
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Humphrey Gilbert
6. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Maryland
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Virginia Company
Restoration
7. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Protestant Wind
John Smith
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Poulation explodes
8. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Longhouse
1712
Near large rivers
9. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Large amount of land and small population.
Slave codes
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
10. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Indian slaves
Enclosure Movement
Squatter
December 1607.
11. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Restoration
Handsome Lake
Starving time
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
12. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
The middle ground
Iroquois Confederacy
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
13. When and who was Carolina founded?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Longhouse
14. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
15. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
James Oglethrope
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
16. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Primogeniture
Virginia Company
Proprietor
17. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Near James River - easy to defend.
King Phillip II of Spain
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
18. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1712
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
20. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Sugar cane
Slave codes
21. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Lord Baltimore
Entail
Could inherit husband's land.
Large amount of land and small population.
22. What was Savvanah known as?
Sugar cane
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
1712
Melting Pot society
23. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Sea dogs
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Indian slaves
Dismissed parliament
24. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
December 1607.
1624
1712
25. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Entail
May 24 - 1607
Maryland Act of Toleration
26. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lord Baltimore
Georgia
Indian slaves
27. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
Maryland Act of Toleration
28. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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29. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
King Phillip II of Spain
1685
Water Raleigh
Lord Del la Warr
30. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
James Oglethrope
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Sugar cane
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
31. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Iroquois Confederacy
yeoman
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Water Raleigh
32. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Near large rivers
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Near James River - easy to defend.
Handsome Lake
33. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
May 24 - 1607
North Carolina
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Restoration
34. What were the '3 D's'?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lord Del la Warr
Lord Baltimore
35. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Dismissed parliament
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
North Carolina
36. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Proprietor
Royal charter
1712
37. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Maryland
The middle ground
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
38. How many settlers survived the starving time?
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Nation-state
60
James Oglethrope
39. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Proprietor
Barbados Slave Codes
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Georgia
40. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Slave codes
Starving time
Pocahontas
41. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Near James River - easy to defend.
James Oglethrope
Indian slaves
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
42. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
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43. What caused religious civil war in England?
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44. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Rebecca
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Maryland Act of Toleration
Lord Baltimore
45. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
46. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
The middle ground
1624
Sea dogs
John Rolfe
47. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Slave codes
Water Raleigh
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Maryland
48. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Squatter
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
49. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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50. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
Virginia Company
Melting Pot society
Longhouse
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