Colonies- French & Indian War

Who was the colonial ruler for the American colonies?

• France

• Germany

• Spain

• Britain

Why would a country want to own and maintain colonies?

• Colonies provided a place for their citizens to move, alleviating overpopulation.

• Colonies provided the mother country with cheap raw materials.

• Colonies provided the colonial ruler with cheap labor to ship back to the mother country.

• Colonies were often rich in gold, provided wealth to the colonial ruler.

Mercantilism was the idea that a country should import more than it exports.

• True

• False

The people who moved to the Northern colonies most often moved there for economic opportunity.

• True

• False

Large scale farming and plantations formed in the Southern colonies mostly.

• True

• False

The French and Indian War was fought between the...

• French and British

• French and Indians

• Colonists and British

• Spanish and British

The French and Indian War was fought mainly over territory.

• True

• False

The French and Indian War left Britain with a lot of...

• Casualties

• Debt

• War Prisoners

• Lost Territory

The colonists were mainly angered by the French and Indian War because...

• They lost so many soldiers in the war.

• The war caused the Indians to turn against the colonists and increase attacks against them.

• They were expected to help pay for the war through new taxes.

• They would have preferred to have France as a colonial ruler.