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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865

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1. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of South Carolina?






2. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?






3. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?






4. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?






5. Leader of Jamestown - 1607 was 'mock' executed and 'saved' by Pocahontas.






6. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?






7. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.






8. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.






9. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.






10. Where were most cities and plantations located in the south?






11. Impact of Enclosure Movement?

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12. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?






13. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?

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14. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?






15. England's population between 1550-1600?






16. Married Pocahontas and developed tobacco - murdered in Indian raid.






17. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.






18. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?






19. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?






20. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?






21. What was a headright?






22. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.






23. In the West Indies what staple crop was most important?






24. To limit property rights to eldest son.






25. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?






26. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.






27. What was Captain John Smith's motto?

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28. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.






29. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.






30. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.






31. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.






32. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.






33. What were the '3 D's'?






34. What did the south have a lot of and less of?






35. When and who was Carolina founded?






36. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?






37. From prominent Catholic family - founded Maryland in 1634 - as a safe haven for other Catholics.






38. First representnative government in New World - founded in Virginia in 1619.






39. Daughter of chief Powhatan - through relationship with John Smith and marriage to John Rolfe - became an 'ambassador' between Indians and English settelers.






40. A country that is unified.






41. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.






42. Where and why was Jamestown established at the area it was?






43. What rivers were important for transporatation in the south?






44. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these






45. What was Pocahonta's 'christain name'?






46. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.






47. powerful Indian chief of tribes near James River






48. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?






49. How did joint-stock companies help fuel colonization?






50. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?







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