CC#5 - The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

Liberalism was about the government protecting a person's natural rights, defined by John Locke as freedom of speech, religion, and assembly.

FALSE - Locke's natural rights were defined as life, liberty, and property.

Mercantilism was the idea that businesses should compete with one another in an unregulated free market.

FALSE - That's capitalism. Mercantilism held that the government should regulate the economy to increase national power.

The biggest losers of the war were the Spanish.

FALSE - The Native Americans got the worst result from the war since they would end up in British territories.

According to the Proclamation of 1763, land north of the Rocky Mountains was to be reserved for the Indians.

FALSE - The Proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for the Indians.

The two most important colonial goods, cotton and lumber, relied heavily on slave labor.

FALSE - The two most important goods did rely on slave labor, but they were sugar and tobacco.

George Washinton's military career began during the Seven Years War and was marked by glory from the very first.

FALSE - Washington lost the fort he was building along with 1/3 of his troops.

Britain's greatest rival during colonial days was Spain due to the huge Spanish empire in the New World.

FALSE - Britain's greatest rival was France; Spain's empire was large but also largely uninhabited.

Due largely to English preacher George Whitefield, religion in the colonies became much more intellectual and academic in nature.

FALSE - It became much more emotional.

Britain was awarded both Canada and Florida in the Treaty of Paris, while France received Caribbean island that were actually worth a lot more money.

TRUE

Colonies were considered useful because they could produce raw materials and also purchase back the manufactured goods made from those raw materials.

TRUE

In addition to labor, slaves were a traded good in a system known as the triangular trade, which connected Europe, Africa, and the colonies.

TRUE

In the end, the British won the war in places as diverse as North America, Europe, and India.

TRUE

Like most wars, the Seven Years War was caused by economic issues.

TRUE

Pontiac's Rebellion, an armed revolt by Native Americans against the British, ultimately failed but did persuade the British to tell colonists to stop moving into Indian lands.

TRUE

Republicanism meant not having a king, but in the colonies it also included the Roman idea that property owners were the ones who would look out for the good of society.

TRUE

The Great Awakening involved people breaking away from long-standing churches and starting new denominations.

TRUE

The Great Awakening was a religious era in which ideas about traditional authority came under challenge.

TRUE

The Seven Years War is most significant in U.S. history because it set up the tensions that would result in the American Revolution.

TRUE

The Seven Years War was sparked off when Virginia gave away land that the French and Indians believed they had rights to.

TRUE

The undermining of authority that was a part of the American Revolution had roots that were economic, political, and religious in nature.

TRUE

The Seven Years War lasted for nine years and is called by several different names worldwide.

TRUE - In particular it is called the French and Indian War in U.S. history.