Period 3 APUSH review questions

Which development most directly intensified tensions between Britain and France in mid-18th-century North America?

• British withdrawal from the Ohio River Valley

• Expansion of British colonial settlement into the interior

• Spanish seizure of New Orleans

• Dutch reentry into the fur trade

The primary French concern about British movement into the Ohio River Valley was that it threatened—

• French naval supremacy in the Atlantic

• mercantilist trade with the Caribbean

• existing French–American Indian trade networks

• French control of Louisiana’s plantation economy

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is best understood as the North American theater of which global conflict?

• War of Jenkins’ Ear

• War of the Austrian Succession

• Seven Years’ War

• Napoleonic Wars

A major result of Britain’s victory in 1763 was that Britain—

• ceded Canada to France

• gained Canada and lands east of the Mississippi River

• abandoned claims to the Ohio Valley

• recognized French sovereignty over the Great Lakes

Which post-1763 British policy most immediately inflamed colonial resentment due to its geographic restrictions?

• Sugar Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

• Tea Act

The Proclamation of 1763 primarily sought to—

• protect colonial shipping from French privateers

• limit westward settlement to reduce conflict with Native Americans

• end self-government in colonial assemblies

• require colonial military service in the British Army

Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763–1766) is best described as—

• a colonial protest against taxation without representation

• a British attempt to seize Spanish Florida

• a Native confederacy’s resistance to British encroachment

• a slave revolt in the Caribbean

Britain’s new revenue policies after 1763 were chiefly motivated by—

• a desire to force colonists to convert to Anglicanism

• the need to pay down war debts and police the empire

• French demands in the Treaty of Paris

• colonial lobbying for imperial reform

Which act most directly triggered the Stamp Act Congress and widespread boycotts?

• Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

Colonial arguments against Parliamentary taxation drew MOST heavily on—

• medieval conceptions of monarchy

• the rights of English subjects and Enlightenment ideas

• mercantilist doctrine

• divine right theory