Which company managed the governments and finances of the rich provinces of India according to the passage?

According to the passage, which areas would not be the focus if attention was turned to North America?

Which rivers drained the area beyond the mountains mentioned in the passage?

Name two native peoples mentioned in the passage who possessed the territory before the Crown claimed it.

In the 1750s, which European power was moving in across the Great Lakes from Canada and up the Mississippi from Louisiana?

From Quebec to New Orleans, the French were taking control of the continent's interior, building forts and trading posts at which locations?

Read the passage below and answer the question: Although not as lucrative as Jamaica or India, British North America was essential to the sugar economy. The colonies on the Atlantic coast had grown despite British policy. Religious dissenters had planted the New England colonies—Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut—in the seventeenth century. They prospered through trade, turning New England’s forests into ships and barrels to carry the British Empire’s goods and feeding the enslaved laborers of the West Indies with cod caught off New England’s coast. Boston and Newport had become busy ports. The culturally homogeneous New Englanders had more power to govern themselves than anyone else in the British empire—they had rebuffed England’s attempt in 1688 to restructure their government and jealously guarded their local power.

What product from New England was used to feed the enslaved laborers of the West Indies?

Read the passage below and answer the question: Although not as lucrative as Jamaica or India, British North America was essential to the sugar economy. The colonies on the Atlantic coast had grown despite British policy. Religious dissenters had planted the New England colonies—Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut—in the seventeenth century. They prospered through trade, turning New England’s forests into ships and barrels to carry the British Empire’s goods and feeding the enslaved laborers of the West Indies with cod caught off New England’s coast. Boston and Newport had become busy ports. The culturally homogeneous New Englanders had more power to govern themselves than anyone else in the British empire—they had rebuffed England’s attempt in 1688 to restructure their government and jealously guarded their local power.

In what year did England attempt to restructure the government of the New England colonies?

Britain had taken New York from which country in 1664?

Which Native American group did New York trade with, as mentioned in the passage?

Fill in the blank: New York City, on the southern tip of _________ Island, and Albany, up the Hudson River, were the most important trading centers.

New Englanders recognized New York's imperial dreams.

Pennsylvania was founded by which religious group in the 1680s?

According to the passage, why did Pennsylvania's merchants defy New York's claim to a monopoly on trade with the Iroquois?

Philadelphia became the empire's second busiest port by 1750, sending grain to feed the laborers in ______ and Jamaica and bringing English, German, and Scotch-Irish immigrants to become independent farmers in Pennsylvania.

Which colonies are referred to as the Chesapeake colonies in the passage?

In the eighteenth century, large farms used ______ labor to grow tobacco for the world market.

Which colony was the largest mainland colony in area and population in the eighteenth century?

Two of every five Virginians were slaves in the eighteenth century.

North Carolina's coastal towns, such as ______ and Edenton, were trading centers for tobacco gentry.

Who were rapidly settling North Carolina's interior in the eighteenth century?

According to the passage, North Carolina's population quadrupled between which years?

What percentage of people in South Carolina's low-country were enslaved in the 1680s?

Charleston, the only urban center south of Philadelphia, was formerly known as:

Georgia was the newest and smallest colony according to the passage.

Which group settled South Carolina's coastal low-country in the 1680s?

According to the passage, why was Georgia founded in the 1730s?

Fill in the blank: Georgia shared the slave labor economy of _________

The passage states that half of Georgia's population was enslaved in the 1730s.

The 'Great Awakening' mentioned in the passage was:

According to the passage, who was responsible for preaching throughout the colonies and helping to bring them together?

George Washington visited Philadelphia and New York as a youth.

Fill in the blank: John Adams, of Massachusetts, did not see New York or Philadelphia until he was nearly _____

What did Benjamin Franklin note about the number of English people who had come to America since 1607?

According to the passage, by 1850, what did Franklin predict about the number of Englishmen in America?

Fill in the blank: England's population had risen from five to six million between ______ and 1750.

Franklin anticipated that the colonies would remain part of a thriving British empire.

Who were taking control of the interior, threatening Britain's control of the continent, according to the passage?

Where do the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to form the Ohio?

How many men were garrisoned at the small fort built by Pennsylvanians to protect traders from New York's Iroquois allies?

In April 1754, the French and their Indian allies came down from Lake Erie with how many pieces of artillery?

What did the Pennsylvanians have to give up after surrendering the fort?

Which colonies were on the verge of war over the land between the Connecticut and Hudson rivers?

According to the passage, which colonies competed for trade with the Creek and Cherokee?

What was the main reason the British government ordered the colonies to meet with the Iroquois?

Fill in the blank: The conference at Albany, New York in the summer of 1754 was considered a _________.

Who drew up a plan of union under which each colony would choose delegates to a forty-eight-member council?

According to the passage, who would appoint the president-general to ensure the council did not conflict with British policy?

What did the Albany conference approve?

Who led the Virginia militia to the Allegheny and Monongahela?

What happened after the French diplomat was killed by the Virginia militia?

According to Franklin, the colonies would only unite if what happened?

Washington's skirmishes on the Monongahela frontier led which two countries to declare war on each other?

According to the passage, which regions did the war spread to?

Who recognized that control of the seas and North America was key to victory in the war?

At the end of the war, Britain controlled all of America east of which river?

Who led the Native Americans against the British after the French were expelled from the Ohio territory?

Every colony from Georgia to Connecticut resented this Proclamation of 1763. Why had they gone to war if they were to be kept out of Ohio?

According to the passage, what was the main purpose of the Sugar Act introduced by Parliament in April 1764?

Fill in the blank: The Sugar Act cut the tax on imported molasses in half, to _______ pence per gallon.

The Sugar Act allowed merchants to avoid posting a bond and did not create special courts for violators.

What was one of the effects of Parliament prohibiting colonies from coining or printing their own money, according to the passage?

According to the passage, why did the merchants protest during the American Revolution?

Fill in the blank: Boston minister Jonathan Mayhew warned that 'People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but ______.'

Who wrote that it was not the tax but the principle that was wrong, and what did he say would happen if colonists could be taxed without their consent?

According to the passage, who did the author argue that slavery was wrong for?

What reasoning does the passage give for why it is wrong to enslave a man because he is black?

The passage suggests that women are born as free as men.

Otis argued that Parliament did not have the power to tax the sugar trade because:

According to the passage, what did Otis see the sugar tax leading to?

Who proposed a stamp tax for the American colonies, according to the passage?

Fill in the blank: The stamp tax proposed by Lord George Grenville taxed all printed documents such as newspapers, pamphlets, college diplomas, deeds, bills of sale and lading, marriage licenses, legal documents, playing cards, and _____

Who warned that the new taxes were the beginning of a 'deep plot laid' against American liberty?

In February 1765, Charles Townshend argued that Americans were protected by British _______.

According to Isaac Barre, what actually 'planted' the Americans in America?

Isaac Barre agreed with Townshend's interpretation of colonial history.

According to the passage, what did American opponents of the Stamp Act begin calling themselves after March 22, 1765?

Who was the printer of the Boston Gazette mentioned as a critical leader of the Sons of Liberty?

The real strength of the Sons of Liberty came from each community's working people, according to the passage.

Name one example of a critical leader of the Sons of Liberty from the passage.

Who became the 'captain general of the Sons of Liberty' according to the passage?

What did the large elm from which the mob hung effigies of unpopular officials become known as?

In May 1765, Patrick Henry argued that the people of Virginia had not given up what right?

Fill in the blank: Patrick Henry's resolutions were published in _______ throughout the colonies, becoming the basis for each colony's opposition.

According to the passage, on the night of August 14, 1765, what did the mob do to the waterfront warehouse?

Who was driven from their house by a mob two weeks after the warehouse incident, according to the passage?

Stamp agents in every colony but Georgia resigned, according to the passage.

Where did James Otis call for delegates from all colonies to meet in protest against the Stamp Act?

Which colonies did NOT send delegates to the congress called by James Otis, according to the passage?

According to the passage, why did the colonists send their petition to King George III?

Who organized protest parades in Boston after the Stamp Act went into effect?

What was the main purpose of the protest parades organized by Ebenezer MacIntosh in Boston?

The passage states that Americans showed a near-unanimous determination to boycott the stamps after the Stamp Act went into effect.

According to the passage, who reported in March 1766 that 'the authority of every colony is in the hands of the sons of liberty'?

Fill in the blank: Customs agent John Robinson reported that stamp officers felt the anger 'not of a trifling Mob, but of a whole ______.'

According to Benjamin Franklin, what had changed Americans' opinion of Parliament?

According to the passage, Americans would lose their 'respect and affection' for the British if Parliament did not repeal the Stamp Act.