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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
House of Burgess
yeoman
1200
2. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Dismissed parliament
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
3. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
John Smith
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
4. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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5. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
John Smith
60
The middle ground
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
6. What was a headright?
Starving time
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
James Oglethrope
1712
7. When and who was Carolina founded?
Maryland Act of Toleration
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
North Carolina
8. What caused religious civil war in England?
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9. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
December 1607.
Could inherit husband's land.
10. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Water Raleigh
Virginia Company
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
Sugar cane
11. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Georgia
The middle ground
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
12. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Restoration
May 24 - 1607
Humphrey Gilbert
13. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Squatter
Water Raleigh
Melting Pot society
14. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Near large rivers
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Slavery
Sugar cane
15. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Handsome Lake
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Indian slaves
Squatter
16. What unusual right did Southern women have?
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17. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Georgia
John Rolfe
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Royal charter
18. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Longhouse
Lord Del la Warr
Handsome Lake
Nation-state
19. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
Lord Baltimore
1685
1624
King Phillip II of Spain
20. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Entail
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Humphrey Gilbert
21. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Proprietor
Melting Pot society
Poulation explodes
22. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Indentured servant
North Carolina
Sea dogs
Georgia
23. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Humphrey Gilbert
Lord Del la Warr
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
24. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
Powhatan
John Rolfe
Could inherit husband's land.
North Carolina
25. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Barbados Slave Codes
John Smith
Powhatan
House of Burgess
26. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Lord Baltimore
Lord Del la Warr
King Phillip II of Spain
Iroquois Confederacy
27. How many settlers survived the starving time?
Enclosure Movement
King Phillip II of Spain
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
60
28. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
May 24 - 1607
December 1607.
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
29. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
30. England's population between 1550-1600?
Poulation explodes
Dismissed parliament
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
31. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Lord Baltimore
1685
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
32. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
Longhouse
Indentured servant
Humphrey Gilbert
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
33. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Near James River - easy to defend.
yeoman
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Lord Baltimore
34. A country that is unified.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Nation-state
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
John Rolfe
35. 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.
Indentured servant
James Oglethrope
Rebecca
36. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Handsome Lake
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Nation-state
Sugar cane
37. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Pocahontas
Protestant Wind
Restoration
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
38. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Rebecca
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Georgia
Squatter
39. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
John Rolfe
Handsome Lake
1670 - Lord Proprietors
40. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
The middle ground
Proprietor
Iroquois Confederacy
Enclosure Movement
41. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Lord Del la Warr
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Starving time
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
42. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
Powhatan
Iroquois Confederacy
John Rolfe
43. What were the '3 D's'?
60
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Water Raleigh
44. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Rebecca
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
James Oglethrope
45. What was Savvanah known as?
Large amount of land and small population.
1200
Squatter
Melting Pot society
46. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Near James River - easy to defend.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
1670 - Lord Proprietors
47. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Royal charter
Sea dogs
Sugar cane
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
48. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Entail
60
Joint-stock company
49. What colony was founded in 1634 and was to be a safe havan to Catholics?
Barbados Slave Codes
1712
Pocahontas
Maryland
50. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Restoration
May 24 - 1607
Lord Del la Warr