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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
1685
Pocahontas
Lord Del la Warr
Rebecca
2. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Humphrey Gilbert
Large amount of land and small population.
Starving time
Indentured servant
3. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Starving time
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
4. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Powhatan
Virginia Company
Proprietor
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
5. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Large amount of land and small population.
John Rolfe
Restoration
6. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Slave codes
Near James River - easy to defend.
Restoration
7. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Lord Del la Warr
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Georgia
8. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
yeoman
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Dismissed parliament
60
9. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?
1712
Rebecca
Proprietor
House of Burgess
10. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?
Near large rivers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Rebecca
Lord Del la Warr
11. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Proprietor
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
12. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
1624
James Oglethrope
Maryland Act of Toleration
Iroquois Confederacy
13. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
The middle ground
Near James River - easy to defend.
May 24 - 1607
14. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Restoration
Maryland
15. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
North Carolina
Protestant Wind
Handsome Lake
Proprietor
16. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
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17. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.
Maryland Act of Toleration
John Smith
Handsome Lake
60
18. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Maryland
Powhatan
North Carolina
19. What were the '3 D's'?
Royal charter
Maryland Act of Toleration
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Poulation explodes
20. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
Near large rivers
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Nation-state
21. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Iroquois Confederacy
Maryland
Pocahontas
22. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
House of Burgess
Royal charter
Humphrey Gilbert
Enclosure Movement
23. What 4 important things happened in 1619?
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Melting Pot society
Iroquois Confederacy
Restoration
24. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Lord Del la Warr
25. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Maryland Act of Toleration
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
26. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Humphrey Gilbert
Powhatan
Iroquois Confederacy
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
27. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Lord Baltimore
1624
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Starving time
28. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
December 1607.
Joint-stock company
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Humphrey Gilbert
29. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
Proprietor
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
James Oglethrope
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
30. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
1685
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Sea dogs
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
31. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Joint-stock company
Large amount of land and small population.
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
32. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Near large rivers
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Large amount of land and small population.
Restoration
33. England's population between 1550-1600?
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
December 1607.
Poulation explodes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
34. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
James Oglethrope
Proprietor
Indian slaves
35. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
King Phillip II of Spain
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
36. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
John Rolfe
Enclosure Movement
Nation-state
37. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
1624
John Rolfe
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
38. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.
December 1607.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Protestant Wind
John Rolfe
39. How many settlers survived the starving time?
60
Melting Pot society
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
yeoman
40. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Indentured servant
Iroquois Confederacy
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
41. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Restoration
Dismissed parliament
Starving time
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
42. What was a headright?
The middle ground
Georgia
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
43. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
Humphrey Gilbert
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
44. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
John Rolfe
Lord Del la Warr
Slavery
45. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
House of Burgess
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Royal charter
Slavery
46. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Poulation explodes
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Water Raleigh
Sugar cane
47. What caused religious civil war in England?
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48. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Slave codes
Enclosure Movement
Barbados Slave Codes
49. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Large amount of land and small population.
James Oglethrope
The middle ground
Squatter
50. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
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