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CLEP U.S. History Early Colonization Till 1865
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1. Who sent Spanish armada to English Channel to invade England?
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
King Phillip II of Spain
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
Royal charter
2. By 1625 - how many settlers in Jamestown - out of 8 -000 had survived?
Georgia
Indian slaves
Primogeniture
1200
3. What did 'King Nicotine' do to soil that caused settlers to continue pushing westward?
yeoman
Rebecca
Depleted soil of its nutrients.
Virginia Company
4. Iroquois Indian - had a vision that his people's moral decline must end - started a religion now known as Longhouse religion.
Dismissed parliament
Near large rivers
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Handsome Lake
5. How did royal government deal with uprisings in Ireland?
Virginia Company
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Maryland
Indian slaves
6. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Georgia?
Longhouse
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Rebecca
7. Soldier - statesmen - against debtors prison - founded colony of Georgia - ironically died in debtors prison himself.
King Phillip II of Spain
Pocahontas
Powhatan
James Oglethrope
8. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Virginia?
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Slavery
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
9. What was the hurricane that finished off the Spanish Armada called?
Maryland Act of Toleration
Rebecca
Georgia
Protestant Wind
10. Poor person that bond themselves to several years of labor to pay for passage to New World.
John Smith
1712
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
Indentured servant
11. In England - the enclosure of land in order to make pastures for sheep.
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
Enclosure Movement
Lord Del la Warr
The middle ground
12. Former 'sea dog' - established an unsucessful colony in Roanoke - NC. Was later executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Land you recieved if you moved to Virginia - 50 acres a person.
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Rebecca
Water Raleigh
13. What colony was known as a valley of humilty between two mountains of conceit?
North Carolina
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Poulation explodes
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
14. What year did the Carolinas officially spilt?
1712
Enclosure Movement
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
Primogeniture
15. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of Maryland?
16. Two reasons England failed to establish colonies in first half of 1500's.
1685
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
Large amount of land and small population.
17. What was South Carolina's most imporant export?
Proprietor
Lord Del la Warr
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Indian slaves
18. What caused religious civil war in England?
19. To limit property rights to eldest son.
Entail
Rebecca
Sugar cane
House of Burgess
20. What year was the Powhatan people practiacally declared extinct?
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal
Barbados Slave Codes
1685
Large amount of land and small population.
21. One that is granted ownership of a colony - and full responsibilty of establishing a government and distributing land.
yeoman
Slavery
1712
Proprietor
22. What year did James I make bankrupt Virginia a royal colony?
John Smith
Joint-stock company
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
1624
23. Wooden structure - 25 feet in breadth - eight to two hundred feet long - large families resided in these
Longhouse
Slave codes
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Rebecca
24. Who annouced war on Powhatan Indians and used 'Irish tactics' on the natives?
Lord Del la Warr
Proprietor
Many Puritan's lost homes and farmed - crowded into cities.
Humphrey Gilbert
25. What was Captain John Smith's motto?
26. 5 bound Indian tribes - Mowhawks - Oneidas - Onondagas - Cayugas - and Seneca- worked together to defeat enemies and obtain resources.
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Iroquois Confederacy
Entail
27. The act of using another human being for free labor - treating them as property.
December 1607.
Large amount of land and small population.
Slavery
Francis Drake - was eventually knighted by Elizabeth.
28. What happened in 1614 that ended the 1st Anglo-Powhatan War?
North Carolina
May 24 - 1607
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
1st and 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars
29. Winter of 1609-1610 - many Jamestown settlers died of starvation and sickness - only 60 survived.
Starving time
Subsidaries (money compensation)
Lord Del la Warr
Joint-stock company
30. What happened in 1606 between King James I and London Virginia Company?
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
House of Burgess
Virginia Company was granted charter in America.
Near James River - easy to defend.
31. Common working man - no special craft - small farmer.
Indian slaves
yeoman
Indentured servant
John Rolfe
32. Came to Jamestown in 1610 - develped a strict military regime - and attacked Native Americans.
Lord Del la Warr
Indian slaves
King Phillip II of Spain
King Henry VIII's seperation from Roman Catholic Church.
33. Formal document issued by a monarch as a grant for power to an individual or business.
Royal charter
Starving time
Sea dogs
December 1607.
34. What did Charles I do in 1629?
Dismissed parliament
Handsome Lake
Longhouse
Subsidaries (money compensation)
35. Effect of primongenture laws on younger sons?
1712
May 24 - 1607
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
1) disease 2)disorganization 3) disposabilty
36. What was the area between the English settlers and Indians called?
yeoman
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
Savannah - Propreitory - 1733 - silk and wine - 1752=royal colony
The middle ground
37. What colony was founded in 1733 and was used - essentially - as a buffer?
John Rolfe
Near large rivers
Restoration
Georgia
38. Charles II restored to the throne leading to intensified building and growth of Imperialism in England.
Queen Elizabeth's first ascension to the throne.
Restoration
1) Religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants 2) Allied with Spain
John Smith
39. What did the south have a lot of and less of?
Sugar cane
Squatter
Large amount of land and small population.
Near James River - easy to defend.
40. Business entity that is owned by many shareholders - first form of a corporation.
Joint-stock company
Barbados Slave Codes
Near large rivers
Lowered the risk of establishing a colony.
41. What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada's impact on England.
Poulation explodes
Sea dogs
Charlestown - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slaves - rice - indigo - 1729=royal colony
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
42. What was the result of the 2nd Powhatan war?
Reduced and pushed the Indian poplations westward.
1200
Iroquois Confederacy
North Carolina
43. Set of codes that defined a slave's status and relationship with master.
Slave codes
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Sea dogs
44. What was the first settlement - type of ownership - when was it founeded - main export - and status of North Carolina?
December 1607.
New Bern - Proprietory - 1670 - Indian slave - 1729=royal colony
60
Near large rivers
45. What was the date of John Smith's mock execution?
December 1607.
1200
1624
People were unified by sense of nationalism.
46. Joint-stock company that established Jamestown in 1607.
Poulation explodes
Virginia Company
House of Burgess
Crushed the Irish. Gave land to Scottish and English Protestants.
47. One who lives and makes use of land that they do not own.
Proprietor
Squatter
Rebecca
St. Mary's - Proprietory - 1634 - tobacco - remained propiretory
48. What ended England's alliance with Spain in 1558?
49. What three vices were allowed in Georgia?
Had to seek their fortune elsewhere - many went to America where LAND was in abundance.
Could inherit husband's land.
Tabacco - alcohol - and lawyers
Powhatan
50. Half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Queen Elizabeth's permission set out to establish a colony in Newfoundland - died at sea in 1583.
Humphrey Gilbert
1712
Barbados Slave Codes
Jamestown - Joint-stock company - 1607 - tobacco - 1624=royal