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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
Near James River - easy to defend.
Poulation explodes
Primogeniture
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
2. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.
Starving time
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
House of Burgess
3. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Water Raleigh
Maryland Act of Toleration
Powhatan
May 24 - 1607
4. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Sea dogs
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Slavery
5. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Georgia
Proprietor
6. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
1200
Handsome Lake
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
7. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Maryland Act of Toleration
John Smith
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
8. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
The middle ground
James Oglethrope
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
9. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
yeoman
Proprietor
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
10. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Enclosure Movement
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
House of Burgess
11. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Slave codes
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Lord Del la Warr
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
12. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
House of Burgess
Lord Del la Warr
King Phillip II of Spain
Rebecca
13. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
14. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Royal charter
Subsidaries (money compensation)
15. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Rebecca
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
16. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
Longhouse
Sea dogs
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
17. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Iroquois Confederacy
Virginia Company
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
18. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
Near large rivers
Maryland
Dismissed parliament
19. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
Nation-state
60
North Carolina
Slavery
20. What caused religious civil war in England?
21. What was a headright?
Georgia
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
22. What were the '3 D's'?
Water Raleigh
Sea dogs
Melting Pot society
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
23. 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.
James Oglethrope
Sea dogs
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
24. Who was most famous sea dog?
Starving time
Squatter
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
25. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Humphrey Gilbert
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
26. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
December 1607.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Nation-state
yeoman
27. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Iroquois Confederacy
Poulation explodes
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Virginia Company
28. What unusual right did Southern women have?
29. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Powhatan
Poulation explodes
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
30. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
Entail
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
31. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
32. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
33. When and who was Carolina founded?
Virginia Company
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Primogeniture
1670 - Lord Proprietors
34. What are the queen's personal pirates or privateers called?
Sea dogs
Georgia
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Humphrey Gilbert
35. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Lord Del la Warr
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Sea dogs
Starving time
36. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Lord Baltimore
Protestant Wind
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
37. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
Enclosure Movement
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Sugar cane
Rebecca
38. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
1685
Poulation explodes
39. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Handsome Lake
Squatter
Iroquois Confederacy
Lord Del la Warr
40. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
41. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
1200
Indian slaves
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
42. 1622 and1644 - wars between Powhatan Indians and English settlers - resulted in seperation of Europeans and Indians in area near James River
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
The middle ground
King Phillip II of Spain
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
43. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Primogeniture
Indian slaves
Entail
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
44. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Water Raleigh
Enclosure Movement
1685
Protestant Wind
45. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Sugar cane
Handsome Lake
Powhatan
46. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Entail
North Carolina
Sugar cane
47. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Starving time
48. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
Restoration
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
49. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Protestant Wind
Melting Pot society
Lord Del la Warr
Royal charter
50. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
Indentured servant
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Longhouse
Squatter