Unit 2 Test (US Honors)

As a result of the French and Indian War,

• Native Americans gained control of the Great Lakes region.
• Britain lost control of lands east of the Mississippi River.
• France turned Canada over to Britain.
• France gained control of Florida.

A direct result of the Intolerable Acts was the

• colonial attack on French forts.
• calling together of the First Continental Congress.
• cancellation of the Townshend taxes.
• breaking up of all colonial militias.

The idea of natural rights is best defined as

• individuals’ duties to their government.
• the economic interests of the people.
• a government’s powers over its citizens.
• rights belonging to all people because they are human.

The Americans won the Revolutionary War mainly because

• their armies were better trained and disciplined than the British.
• British arms were inferior to American arms.
• they had the determination to outlast the British.
• the American navy was superior to the British navy.

Which statement best describes British-American relations after the French and Indian War?

• The British began to respect American culture
• The colonists began to question British authority.
• The British began to treat Americans as equals.
• The colonists became more dependent on Britain.

Why did many colonists protest the Stamp Act?

• The act enabled the British to censor all written materials in the colonies.
• The act threatened to disrupt trading patterns with overseas markets.
• The act increased the cost of British imports.
• The act taxed the colonists without their consent.

The political ideas of Thomas Jefferson were greatly influenced by

• the Olive Branch Petition.
• the Albany Plan of Union.
• the Enlightenment.
• the Battle of Yorktown.

What was a major advantage of the American side in the Revolutionary War?

• Patriot forces were fighting on their own territory.
• British forces were not well equipped.
• Americans had a well-supplied, stable, and effective fighting force.
• The British people strongly supported their forces fighting in the colonies.

The results of the Battle of Saratoga

• destroyed morale among the American colonists.
• encouraged Britain to end the Revolutionary War immediately.
• convinced the French to ally themselves with the Americans.
• forced the Americans to retreat from the area around Trenton.

One consequence of the French and Indian War was that

• the colonists began to see themselves as different from the British.
• the British lost interest in the American colonies.
• the British granted the colonists their independence.
• the colonists allied themselves with France.