Period 3 APUSH Practice Bank 2024

Arange the events below in their correct chronological order

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

• XYZ Affair

• Neutrality Proclamation

• Jay's Treaty

Answer explanation

The correct chronological order is Neutrality Proclamation, Jay's Treaty, XYZ affair, and Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions.

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

Answer explanation

The French wanted to merge their landholdings from Canada to the Mississippi Valley, which was a major goal in maintaining control over the Ohio Valley.

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

Answer explanation

The Albany Congress aimed to improve relations with the Iroquois tribes, making it the most immediate objective of the event.

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

Answer explanation

The correct answer is that Britain felt it necessary to abandon the practice of salutary neglect after the French and Indian War.

What is the correct chronological order?

• Navigation Law of 1660

• The Peace of Paris

• The Molasses Act

• The Albany Congress

• The Tea Act

Answer explanation

The Correct Chronological Order is:

1. The Navigation Law of 1660

2. The Albany Congress

3. The Peace of Paris

4. The Molasses Act

5. The Tea Act

All of the following were effects of the French and Indian War on the colonists EXCEPT:

• It was a socializing experience for American men

• Impressment caused resentment among colonists

• Colonists began to view English authority as illigitimate

• It resolved tensions between colonists and Native Americans

Answer explanation

The correct answer is 'It resolved tensions between colonists and Native Americans' because the French and Indian War actually increased tensions between colonists and Native Americans.

According to the Proclamation of 1763

• colonial militiamen were required to put down Pontiac’s Rebellion.

• colonial paper money could not be printed.

• contact between colonials and Indians was strictly forbidden

• settlers were prohibited from crossing the Appalachian mountains.

Answer explanation

The correct answer is that settlers were prohibited from crossing the Appalachian mountains according to the Proclamation of 1763.

Under the theory of mercantilism, the British colonies were essentially expected to

• buy only British goods and sell all their own goods only to Britain and nowhere else.

• urnish raw materials to the mother country and buy British manufactured goods.

• provide troops for their own defense and pay taxes to support the common welfare of the Empire.

• grant British investors fifty percent of the ownership of any colonial commercial or manufacturing enterprise.

Answer explanation

Under mercantilism, British colonies were expected to provide raw materials to the mother country and buy British manufactured goods to benefit the British economy.

The Sugar Act, the Quartering Act, and the Stamp Act were all fundamentally designed to

• teach the Americans that they were subjects and not equal citizens of the British Empire

• force colonial Americans to pay for the costs of the Seven Years’ War and the continuing cost of their defense.

• assert the principle that Parliament had the right to tax as well as legislate for the colonies.

• to resist any revolt that might occur in the Colonies

Answer explanation

The correct choice is to force colonial Americans to pay for the costs of the Seven Years’ War and the continuing cost of their defense.

The most effective colonial measure that forced the repeal of the Stamp Act was

• the Stamp Act Congress

• the creation of the Committees of Correspondence

• the violent colonial assaults on British Redcoats

• the complete colonial boycott of British goods.

Answer explanation

The most effective colonial measure that forced the repeal of the Stamp Act was the complete colonial boycott of British goods.