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WorksheetsConsequences of the French and Indian War
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 13mins
Define the word "debt."
Student loans
When someone owes another person something
The type of card you swipe to buy things.
When someone has too much money and doesn't know what to spend it on.
Define the word "inflation"
Blowing up a balloon
The rate at which prices decrease over a period of time.
The rate at which prices increase over a period of time.
Gaining money due to selling a product.
Which country did the colonies belong to?
England
Spain
France
America
Why did the Albany Plan of Union fail?
The British government told the colonies they weren't allowed to unify in this way.
The Iroquois nation backed out of the agreement.
The colonies didn't like each other.
No colony would give up their independence or power.
What message is this image trying to convey?
Snakes cannot survive if they are cut into pieces.
That the states/colonies needed to unite against the French and Native Americans or risk dying off.
It represents all the colonies under British control.
Benjamin Franklin believed snakes made the best pets.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
It created a boundary separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountain.
A statement made with the intention of aggravating the Native Americans.
Made it easier for people to expand westward beyond Appalachia.
Allowed citizens to to make agreements with the Native Americans.
What groups of people was the Proclamation of 1763 trying to protect?
Native Americans
The French
White settlers
Both Native Americans and white settlers
What is salutary neglect?
Benefits given through something unwelcome/unpleasant
Ignoring a group of people because they are annoying.
the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade
Refusing to salute someone in authority
What was the Treaty of Paris?
Something only French people had to follow
Royal Proclamation of 1763
End of the French and Indian War
Boundaries to colonies in Appalachia
Match the Following
Sugar Act (1764)
1st tax on imported molasses and sugar
Stamp Act (1765)
Taxed an array of paper products
Townshend Acts (1767)
Tax on imported goods
Tea Act (1773)
Cheap tea given directly to colonists
What two reasons were why the British decide to enforce new taxes?
To enforce a tighter grip on the colonists.
Because they felt like it.
They needed to save up to pay for the Revolutionary War.
They had massive debt from the French and Indian War they needed to pay.
What was the colonists' slogan/battle cry during this time of struggle with the British?
Leave us alone!
The British are coming!
No taxation without representation.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
