APUSH ch. 6

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French motives in the New World included the desire to

compete with Spain for an empire in America

The War of Jenkins's Ear was

confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia

The disunity that existed in the colonies before the French and Indian War can be attributed to all of the following except

contempt for the British government

The reason Britain needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

continue its expansion west in North America and block French land-grabbing and influence

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity

For interior Indian tribes in North America, the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War

eliminated their ability to play off rival European powers against each other

France was finally able to join in the scramble for colonies in the New World as a result of the

end of the religious wars

For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War

ended the myth of British invincibility

In responding to Chief Pontiac's uprising of allied western Indian tribes, the British

engaged in a form of biological warfare against Pontiac and his allies

The Indians suffered from their association with the French in New France in all of the following ways except

exclusion from the fur business

Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

it did not seem to give enough independence to the colonies

All of the following are true about the War of Jenkins's Ear except

it resulted in France allying itself with Britain

France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when

it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763

The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British

The reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley

Colonists emerged from the French and Indian War

more confident in their military strength

The Jesuit priests, despite their initial failure in gaining converts, played a vital role because

of their exploration and work as geographers

The coureurs de bois and the voyaguers

played critical roles in recruiting local Indian tribes to develop the French fur business in New France

Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die

The outcome of the Battle of Québec in 1759

resulted in the emergence of Great Britain as the overwhelmingly dominant power in America

The French wanted to control the interior basin of Louisiana because they

sought to block imperial encroachment by Spain in the Gulf of Mexico region

With the military defeat of Chief Pontiac and his western Indian alliance, the British decided to

stabilize Indian-white relations

As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne

the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack

The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the

use of primitive guerrilla warfare

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity; (B) General Edward Braddock is defeated near Fort Duquesne; (C) British troops capture Louisbourg in their first significant victory of the French and Indian War; and (D) General James Wolfe's army defeats Montcalm's on the Plains of Abraham

A, B, C, D

In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763

American colonists moved west, defying the Proclamation

During the Seven Years' War

British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials

Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War?

All colonists freely donated money and men to the British war effort

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War

France surrendered to Great Britain all of its territorial claims to North America

The population in Catholic New France grew very slowly because

French peasants had no economic motive to move to the colonies

New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned ____ to France in 1748

Louisbourg

All of the following were allies on one side of the French and Indian War except

Prussia

The soldier and explorer whose leadership in establishing French colonies earned him the title "Father of New France" was

Samuel de Champlain

With the British and American victory in the Seven Years' War

a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat disappeared

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat

Government in New France (Canada) was

almost completely autocratic

With the end of the Seven Years' War, the disunity, jealousy, and suspicion that had long existed in the American colonies

began to melt somewhat

During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with

decades of salutary neglect

In a sense, the history of the United States began with the

fall of Quebec and Montreal

When William Pitt became prime minister during the Seven Years' War, he

focused on developing a successful military strategy in the Québec-Montréal area that ultimately routed the French in Canada

During the early settlement of Quebec, the actions of Samuel de Champlain

included forging a pivotal alliance with the Hurons that inspired the lasting hatred of the Iroquois

The Proclamation of 1763

prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Although the fur business in New France was a lucrative government-supported industry in the 1680s and 1690s, its importance to the French government paled in comparison to

supporting the production of sugar and rum in the French Caribbean colonies

The Seven Years' War was also known in America as

the French and Indian War

Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because

the Indians were in a precarious position

The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of

the Ohio River Valley

In his first military command encounter in the French and Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington

was defeated by French forces at Fort Necessity following a ten-hour siege in July 1754

Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars, the Seven Years' War

was fought initially on the North American continent

From 1688 to 1763, America

was involved in every world war that convulsed Europe during this period

The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War

was prompted, in part, by the fact that in 1756 the undeclared war in America had merged into a world conflict

The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to

work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem and prevent another bloody Indian eruption like Pontiac's uprising


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