#2 French and Indian War to Revolution

Which action by the British government was considered by American colonists to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen?

• making treaties with Native American Indians

• protecting the colonies from foreign invasion

• failing to enforce the Navigation Acts

• taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

The results of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) led to the independence movement in the thirteen colonies because the British...

• lost control of Canada and Florida

• began imposing new taxes on the colonists

• removed the Spanish threat to the colonists

• opened the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to colonial settlers

The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to...

• allow American farmers to use the Mississippi River

• outlaw slavery in the Ohio River valley

• prevent France from expanding into the Great Lakes region

• avoid conflicts with Native American Indians west of the Appalachian Mountains

In the 1760s, Americans in the original thirteen British colonies began to protest against...

• efforts by the king to extend voting rights to women

• laws passed by the British Parliament regulating colonial trade

• limits placed on land ownership by royal governers

• decisions of British authorities to end immigration to the colonies

The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was a turning point in the relationship between American colonists and the British government because the war...

• increased French influence in North America

• ended Native American Indian attacks west of the Appalachian Mountains

• resulted in British debt and attempts to tax colonists

• created an alliance with Canada against the British

How did the outcome of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) effect American colonists?

• new taxes were imposed by Britain to pay its debts

• British troops were removed from the colonies

• settlements were allowed west of the Appalachians

• colonial trade regulations were reduced

Colonists protest the Stamp Act

Sons of Liberty groups are formed

Parliament passes Coercive Acts

These events helped lead to the...

• French and Indian War

• Revolutionary War

• Whiskey Rebellion

• War of 1812

What was a major effect of the Stamp Act (1765) on the colonial trade?

• The British refused to sell certain products to the colonists

• the law led to a decline in the value of colonial currency

• the colonists no longer needed British goods

• many colonists boycotted British goods

What was a result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution?

• the British lost most of their colonies to the French

• the French colonies expanded west of the Appalachian Mountains

• the French continued to control the Ohio River Valley and the fur trade

• Britain won the Ohio River Valley and was in debt because of the war

The slogan "No taxation without representation" referred to taxes enacted by

• colonial legislators

• town meetings

• the English Parliament

• the First Continental Congress