American Pageant - Ch 6

Compared with the English colonies in N America, New France was

• more wealthy and successful
• better able to maintain consistently friendly relations with the Indians
• more heavily populated
• more autocratically governed

The expansion of New France occurred especially

• in the interior mountain areas
• into areas already occupied by English settlers
• to the north of the original St Lawrence River settlement
• along the paths of N America's interior lakes and rivers

Colonial Americans were unhappy about the peace treaty of 1748 following the War of Jenkin's Ear because

• it refused to acknowledge the great colonial contribution to British victory
• it returned the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France
• it created further conflicts with Spain
• it failed to deal with the issue of INdian attacks on the frontier

The original cause of the French and Indian War was

• conflict in Europe between Britain and France
• British removal of the Aadian French settlers from Nova Scotia
• A French attack on George Washington's Virginia headquarters
• competition between French and English colonists for land in the Ohio River valley

The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as

• The Seven Years' War
• The War of Jenkin's Ear
• King George's War
• the American Revolution

Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted in 

• a permanent cooperative organization of the colonies
• rejection of the congress's proposal for colonial home rule both by London and by the individual colonies
• a sharp increase in Indian attacks on colonial settlements
• a growing colonial sympathy with France in the war against Britain

The British forces suffered crushing early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command of 

• General Braddock
• General Washington
• General Montcalm
• General Wolfe

The fundamental flaw in British strategy before William Pitt gained control of the London government was it

• devoted all its energy towinning naval victories while ignoring the war on land
• failed to elicit the full support and cooperation of its Indian allies
• tried to attack numerous French wilderness forts simultaneously, instead of concentrating on key forts
• refused to give sufficient forces to its best colonial general, George Washington

The decisive event in the French-British contest for N America was the

• British capture of Fort Duquesne
• British victory in the Battle of Quebec
• American catpure of the Louisbourg fortress
• British attack on the French West Indies

Among the factors that tended to promote British colonists' intercolonial unity during the French and Indian War was

• their religious unity
• their common language and shared wartime experience
• their ethnic and social harmony
• their desire to seize French land