VAUSH Midterm Review Part 2

What was the main outcome of the French and Indian War?

• The French gained territory in eastern Canada

• The British had to retreat losing ground to the French

• French troops celebrated victory over the English

• The French were driven out of Canada and western territories

One result of the French and Indian War was the increase of –

• French troops in the American colonies

• British war debt

• new French laws and regulations

• British neglect in colonial affairs

All are considered key ideas of the Enlightenment except –

• separation of powers

• natural rights

• a monarch governs

• separation of church and state

What was the purpose of the pamphlet produced by Thomas Paine?

• Supported the century-old practice of dictatorial rule

• Challenged the rule of the colonies by the King of England and later incorporated many ideas from the pamphlet

• Called for peace negotiations to take place

• Recommended that colonists obey the rules set by the King of England

Road to the Revolution: Which correctly completes the order of these events?

• Jamestown was founded

• Plymouth was established as a colony

• The First Continental Congress met

• The House of Burgesses was established

What were colonists called that remained loyal to Britain because of cultural and economic ties to the British crown?

• Tories

• Patriots

• Neutrals

• Minutemen

The Revolutionary War began –

• when the Continental Congress met

• with a skirmish at Lexington and Concord

• when British troops fired into a Boston crowd

• as taxes increased in the colonies

Leading to the Revolution, some American colonists believed the use of writs of assistance and the Quartering Act –

• violated their civil liberties as Englishmen

• made employment hard to find

• opened colonial ports for trade with foreign nations

• were strongly supported by the Continental Congress

The person pictured was associated with the Revolution as –

• a Virginian farmer loyal to the British crown

• a neutral colonist

• a Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

• a leader of the Tories in the colonies

The Proclamation of 1763 –

• established martial law in Massachusetts

• shut down the Boston Harbor for trade

• taxed sugar and tea

• increased tensions by prohibiting settlement west