The French and Indian War as a Turning Point (APUSH Period 3)

What is the ultimate purpose of a colony?

• To make a profit for the mother country.

• To expand the borders of the mother country.

Which of the following was NOT a purpose of the Navigation

• To ensure that the colonies generated wealth for England. 

• To demonstrate the superiority of England over the colonies.

• To discourage the colonies from trading with other nations.

What is salutary neglect?

• It is the lack of care that the English government showed towards the American Colonies which led to the American Revolution.

• It is the neglect to enforce the Navigation Acts which led the colonists to believe they should be economically independent within the British Empire.

What was the cause behind England's salutary neglect?

• They wanted to promote an increase in trade which would enrich wealthy merchants who were influential in their political system.

• They were not making very much profit off the colonies to the extent that trade enforcement was not cost-effective. 

Before the French and Indian War why were the British less likely to want to enforce the Navigation Acts? 

• Because of their rivalry with the French colonies in North America.

• Because there very little cost for maintaining the American colonies.

Which of the following is NOT one of the conclusions that the British government drew from the French and Indian War?

• The American colonists were unable to defend themselves and therefore Brtish troops needed to be stationed there permanently.

• The American colonists should be made economically responsible for the cost of this protection. 

• Troops needed to be stationed in the American colonies to crush the rebellious spirit of the colonists.

Which of the following was NOT a way that the colonists were expected to pay for their own defense? 

• They were expected to raise their own armies and produce their own weapons too defend themselves.

• They were expected to quarter the British army at their expense on American soil.

• They were expected to pay taxes and abide by the spirit of the Navigation Acts.

Which of the following correctly represents a change in British colonial policy towards America that resulted from the French and Indian War. 

• They moved from salutary neglect to salutary enforcement.

• They put fewer troops in America due to the ungratefulness of the colonists. 

What was the immediate effect of the French and Indian War?

• An increase in taxation, British troops, and trade restrictions in the American colonies.

• The American Revolution.

How was the American Revolution a long term effect of the French and Indian War?

• It came a long time after that war and helped to train the American revolutionaries into an organized fighting unit.

• It caused the colonists to question why they needed British protection and led them to the conclusion that they were better off without the British.