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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
Georgia
Rebecca
Maryland Act of Toleration
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
2. Who was most famous sea dog?
John Rolfe
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
3. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
The middle ground
Large amount of land and small population.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Barbados Slave Codes
4. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
Virginia Company
Melting Pot society
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
5. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Squatter
Lord Del la Warr
John Rolfe
6. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Dismissed parliament
Subsidaries (money compensation)
December 1607.
7. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
Proprietor
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Royal charter
Could inherit husband's land.
8. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Sea dogs
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Squatter
9. What unusual right did Southern women have?
10. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
John Rolfe
King Phillip II of Spain
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1685
11. Impact of Enclosure Movement?
12. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Restoration
Iroquois Confederacy
Enclosure Movement
13. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Georgia
Barbados Slave Codes
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
14. Gave all Christians in Maryland - including Catholics - freedom of worship.
Maryland Act of Toleration
Handsome Lake
Dismissed parliament
Water Raleigh
15. Who in 1612 perfected the rasing and harvesting of tabacco?
Royal charter
John Rolfe
Large amount of land and small population.
King Phillip II of Spain
16. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.
Could inherit husband's land.
House of Burgess
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Lord Baltimore
17. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
King Phillip II of Spain
Lord Del la Warr
James Oglethrope
1712
18. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
1200
Poulation explodes
Near large rivers
Large amount of land and small population.
19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?
Rebecca
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
Slave codes
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
20. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Slavery
Handsome Lake
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Melting Pot society
21. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
Entail
1670 - Lord Proprietors
The middle ground
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
22. England's population between 1550-1600?
North Carolina
Poulation explodes
Barbados Slave Codes
Sugar cane
23. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Water Raleigh
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
24. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Lord Baltimore
Squatter
Longhouse
Lord Del la Warr
25. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
26. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Proprietor
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
Sugar cane
27. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Longhouse
Sea dogs
1685
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
28. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
1685
Water Raleigh
Squatter
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
29. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Cape Fear - Nuesse - and Savannah
Indentured servant
Georgia
30. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
King Phillip II of Spain
31. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Could inherit husband's land.
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
Indian slaves
32. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
John Rolfe
1712
Virginia Company
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
33. Gave master all power over slave - condoned cruel punishments
Barbados Slave Codes
Georgia
Large amount of land and small population.
May 24 - 1607
34. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.
Pocahontas
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Poulation explodes
Large amount of land and small population.
35. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
December 1607.
Sea dogs
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
36. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Iroquois Confederacy
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
37. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
Slavery
Royal charter
Large amount of land and small population.
Indentured servant
38. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?
Sugar cane
Dismissed parliament
1) tabacco discovered 2) House of Burgess established 3) African slaves brought to Jamestown? 4) Women come to colony
Lord Del la Warr
39. Law stating that the eldest son had all rights to father's assets and land.
Primogeniture
December 1607.
May 24 - 1607
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
40. 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
Royal charter
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Starving time
41. When and who was Carolina founded?
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Humphrey Gilbert
May 24 - 1607
King Phillip II of Spain
42. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
Lord Del la Warr
Protestant Wind
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
43. A country that is unified.
Joint-stock company
December 1607.
1685
Nation-state
44. What did Georgia recieved from English government in compensation for violence?
House of Burgess
Rebecca
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
45. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
'He who shall not work - shall not eat.'
1670 - Lord Proprietors
Starving time
December 1607.
46. To limit property rights to eldest son.
James Oglethrope
Lord Del la Warr
Entail
1624
47. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Powhatan
Sea dogs
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
King Phillip II of Spain
48. What were the '3 D's'?
Lord Baltimore
Pocahontas
Georgia
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
49. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
1685
North Carolina
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
yeoman
50. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Melting Pot society
Virginia Company
Pocahontas
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.