Standard 3 Review

The most significant consequences of the French and Indian War was that?

• Spain received Florida as a prize of war.

• There were British stacks against the tribes that ha sided with the French,

• England and the colonies began to dislike each other.

• Colonists feared being dragged into European war.

During the French and Indian War, Great Britain sent many ships and troops to North America to protect its property and colonists from the conflict. To pay for it, the British raised taxes on the colonists. Based on this information, which statement is MOST LIKELY true?

• The British military was significantly weakened and could not keep control of the colonies.

• The British government decided it was too expensive to keep colonies in North America.

• The French and Indian War led to better relations between Great Britain and the colonies.

• The French and Indian War contributed to the growing desire for colonial independence,

What was the MAIN purpose of the 1763 Treaty of Paris?

• To formalize a military alliance between France and Spain against Great Britain.

• To formalize trading rights between European powers and American Indians.

• To end the Revolutionary War by recognizing the independence of the United States.

• To end the French and Indian War and divide the colonial territories in North America.

What was a result of the French and Indian War

that eventually led to the American Revolution?

• Britain placed its colonies under strict control

  and began taxing them to help pay for the war.

• Colonists were not offered aid during the war but

  were still expected to serve British interests.

• The loss of colonial territory to the French made

  colonists lose faith in the British government.

• Britain expected colonists to fight the war at their

  own expense and offered no reimbursement.

Why did American colonists resent British taxes?

• Unlike American colonists, people who lived in

  Great Britain did not have to pay any duties .

• Americans did not elect representatives to

  Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.

• Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.

• American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.

Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by:

• "Tarring and feathering" the colonial leaders of Boston.

• Rounding up suspected participants and sending them to Australia.

• Enacting a new set of taxes known as the Townshend Acts.

• Enacting a series of restrictive measures known as the Intolerable Acts.

In the Proclamation of 1763, British Parliament ordered its colonists not to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains to maintain peace with American Indians following the French and Indian War. How did the colonists respond?

• They reached an agreement with American Indians to stay on the East Coast.

• They thought this was unnecessary interference by the British government.

• They established a constitutional monarchy within the colonies to overturn the proclamation.

• They defied the proclamation and issued a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

What was one effect of the Proclamation of 1763?

• England assumed control of French land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• American colonists were forced to pay additional taxes on legal documents.

• England transferred control of the port of New Orleans to Spain.

• American colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Intolerable Acts?

• The Port of Boston was cut off from trade.

• British soldiers were housed in private buildings.

• The governor of Massachusetts gained new powers.

• Taxes on newspapers and pamphlets were increased,

Why was Thomas Paine's Common Sense so influential in the colonies?

• Paine was a highly respected military leader with extensive political experience.

• Paine presented his arguments in language most colonists could understand.

• Paine resigned his seat in the House of Lords to protest British colonial policies.

• Paine was a member of the British aristocracy who chose to live in the colonies.