APUSH Period 3 Review

A major goal of the French in wanting to maintain control over the Ohio Valley was to

• prevent attacks by Native Americans on their forts and outposts

• eventually expand into Canada

• merge their landholdings from Canada to the Mississippi Valley

• exploit the lumber trade

The most immediate objective of the Albany Congress was to

• bring to an end the French and Indian War

• convince American colonists to boycott British-made goods

• end hostilities between Native Americans and French settlers in the Ohio Valley

• improve relations with the Iroquois tribes

As a result of the French and Indian War,

• relations between the French and American colonists improved dramatically.

• France was able to hold on to Canada but lost the rest of its North American empire.

• the Americans and British developed a mutual respect for each other's military abilities

• Britain felt it necessary to abandon the practice of salutary neglect

Which of the following is the correct chronological order?

1 - The Peace of Paris

2 - Navigation Law of 1660

3 - The Tea Act

4 - The Molasses Act

5 - The Albany Congress

• 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5

• 2, 5, 1, 4, 3

• 5, 4, 1, 3, 2

• 1, 2, 5, 4, 3

Conservative delegates to the First Continental Congress

• sought immediate independence from British control.

• favored using violence and intimidation to convince the British to grant the Americans their independence.

• argued for a middle course between self-government and the tyranny of the status quo.

• argued that the colonies had no legal right to representation.

The Navigation Laws passed by England in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on England's American colonies in that they

• led to considerable prosperity for colonial merchants and shippers

• were a major cause of the French and Indian War

• inhibited American trade with countries that were not under English rule

• were welcomed by most American colonies as an opportunity to increase trade with nations other than England

The argument that "abuses and usurpations" by King George and his government violated the social contract that had existed between Britain and its American colonies was articulated in

• the Treaty of Paris

• the Declaration of Rights

• the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms

• the Declaration of Independence

Which of the following colonies did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress?

• New York

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Pennsylvania

Some Americans who allied themselves with the British Crown

• found themselves in a distinct minority, as most colonists favored independence

• believed they would receive greater religious freedom under British rule.

• were forced into supporting the British war effort for fear of losing their land and possessions.

• did so primarily because they believed the independence movement would not be successful.

The Regulator Movement, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Paxton Boys

• were the names of Tory militia units who fought against American revolutionaries in the war.

• indicate to some historians the undemocratic nature of pre-Revolutionary American society.

• were Massachusetts radicals who participated in the Boston Tea Party.

• were black American military units who fought for American independence.