Heimler's History APUSH Unit 3 Review

What was a proposal by Benjamin Franklin for a centralized colonial government that would help coordinate and pay for troops in the French and Indian War? 

IT WAS REJECTED at the time because the colonies valued their local assemblies too much but would be the foundation for later coordinated efforts during the American Revolution.  

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• Albany Plan of Union

• Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris 1763 ending the French and Indian War?

• British won and extended their claims to North America to the Mississippi River.  French lost all their North American holdings.

• French won and extended their claims to North America to the Mississippi River.  Britain lost all their North American holdings.

Following the French and Indian War, what banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains-  a region too costly for the British to protect from Indian uprisings?

Colonists felt angered because the land banned from settlement included the Ohio River Valley just recently won in the French and Indian War.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

Why did the French and Indian War (1754- 1763) end the period of Salutary Neglect?

• the cost of the F&I War meant that England would need to raise taxes and enforce the rules to recover from the financial war debt

• the British government needed help defeating the French in North America and required that the colonists participate in the war

What was the first internal colonial tax passed by Parliament-  it taxed paper items, newspapers, legal documents?  

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Duties

The British Parliament answered colonial protests about " no taxation without representation" with this argument

• the colonists were a part of the British empire and so enjoyed "virtual representation" and should pay their part of the war debt

• the colonists had representation because Parliament regularly heard from colonial agents like Benjamin Franklin in testimony about colonial affairs

• colonists had " natural rights" that all free Englishmen enjoyed

What group of colonists opposed the Stamp Act by violent attacks on the "tax man", this included tarring and feathering and hanging effigies?

• Continental Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• Stamp Act Congress

What were a series of laws passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party-  it included the Boston Port Act that closed the harbor and put a military governor in charge (Thomas Gage)?

The colonists called these measures "intolerable."

• Coercive Acts

• Townshend Duties

What was the primary goal of the 1st Continental Congress when in it met in Philadelphia following passage of the Coercive Acts? 

• to Declare Independence

• to work to organize protest to violations of their rights as Englishmen

The most important thing to remember of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE (Jan. 1776)

• was it was a turning point in popular sentiment (how Americans felt) favoring independence

• it provided original ideas of " natural rights" that inspired the American Revolution