American History Quiz

The purpose of Franklin's Join or Die cartoon was to

• show the need to attend the Albany Congress and unify the colonies.

• pressure Delaware and Georgia to join the Albany Congress.

• get colonists to understand why the American Revolution needed to be fought.

• persuade colonists to accept draft notices and fight in the French and Indian War.

A goal of Benjamin Franklin in 1754 was to

• achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.

• propose independence of the colonies from Britain.

• declare war on the Iroquois tribe.

• prohibit New England and New York from trading with the French West Indies.

All the following were causes of the French and Indian War EXCEPT:

• competition over the Ohio River Valley.

• international competition and a desire to gain colonial supremacy.

• Native American attacks on the frontier.

• French attempts to stop westward expansion of the British colonies.

During the French and Indian War…

• colonial militiamen were impressed with the seeming invincibility of the British regulars.

• British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.

• British officers roundly praised the skillful fighting ability of colonial troops.

• the colonists lost confidence in their own military capability.

The outcome of the French and Indian War affected Native Americans in all the following ways EXCEPT:

• Native Americans lost a powerful diplomatic weapon-the ability to play off the rival European powers against one another.

• In the future the Indians would have to negotiate exclusively with the British.

• Native Americans were forced to begin actively assimilating to British culture by learning English and converting to Christianity

• It led them to stage an uprising led by Pontiac to attempt to drive the British out of Ohio.

The British colonists emerged from the French and Indian War with …

• increased confidence in their own military strength

• increased respect for the seeming invincibility of British troops

• increased desire to establish positive relations with Native Americans

• increased sectionalism and inter-colonial rivalry

After the French and Indian War, Britain shifted its position on imperial regulations to

• promote greater colonial migration to the West.

• find ways to safeguard its borders and maintain neutral trading rights.

• end trading, commerce, and negotiations with American Indians.

• alleviate its massive debt from the war.

In the peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War…

• France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North America.

• England turned Florida over to Spain.

• Spain ceded all of Louisiana, including New Orleans, to Britain.

• France lost all its valuable sugar islands in the West Indies.

The Proclamation of 1763…

• was warmly received by American land speculators.

• removed the Spanish and Indian menace from the colonial frontier.

• declared war on Chief Pontiac and his fierce warriors.

• prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763…

• relations with France improved.

• American colonists obeyed the law they hated.

• relations between the American colonies and the British government improved.

• American colonists moved west, defying the Proclamation.