Chapter 6 Review Questions

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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.

The War of Jenkins's Ear resulted in

British troops being involved in every territory in North America.

For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War

France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North America.

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War

France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North America.

The coureurs de bois were

French fur trappers.

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

Louisbourg

The soldier and explorer whose leadership 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.

The one valuable resource in New France was

beavers.

As a result of the Seven Years' War, Great Britain

became the dominant power in North America.

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.

The War of Jenkins's Ear was

confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia.

The disunity that existed in the colonies before the Seven Years' War can be attributed to all of the following except

contempt for the British government.

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

decades of salutary neglect.

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.

The population in Catholic New France grew very slowly because

disease took a heavy toll on New France's inhabitants.

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

ended in defeat.

For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War

ended the myth of British invincibility.

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.

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 reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley.

The Proclamation of 1763

prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The 1759 Battle of Quebec

ranks as one of the most significant victories in British and American history.

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

stabilize Indian-white relations.

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.

Unlike the English colonies in America, in New France

there were no popularly elected assemblies.

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

use of primitive guerrilla warfare.

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

was defeated at Fort Necessity but was allowed to retreat.

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

was fought initially on the North American continent.

Beginning with the seventeenth century, America

was involved in every world war since 1688.

The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to

work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem.

The French wanted to control Louisiana because they

would then control the mouth of the Mississippi.


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