Class 6

Question 1

What was the first imperial war that had colonial involvement?

Answer 1

The Nine years wars (Augsburg war)

Question 2

t or f: Nine year war is a breaking point in colonies involvement in imperial wars.

Answer 2

True, to this point, imperial doesn’t = war in colonies

Question 3

Who’s side is more numerous in the 9 years war? in the colonies

Answer 3

The British (10 to 1)

Question 4

Who was the French most imp allies?

Answer 4

Indigenous allies and their distinct type of warfare

Question 5

T or F: 13 colonies had a more organized structure than New France

Answer 5

False, it’s vice-versa

Question 6

What expedition did the English launch?

Answer 6

Montreal and Quebec

Question 7

How does the 9 years war end?

Answer 7

The succession on William the iii and his heirs is cemented. Britain is set as a global power that can compete against France

Question 8

What provokes que War of Spanish Succession?

Answer 8

The sovereign of Spain has no heir and will die because of inbreeding. Who will have access to Spain and its colonies?

Question 9

How is the treaty of Utrecht important for colonial ruling?

Answer 9

Britain gains Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and other French territories

Question 10

What does Britain’s acquisition of the Asiento imply?

Answer 10

Britain now has the monopoly of slave trade in the Caribbeans

Question 11

What does the English-indigenous conflict in Main and Acadia reveals? (Father Rale’s war)

Answer 11

The importance of anti-catholicism in rallying ENglish forces against France

Question 12

What’s the spanish name of the War of Jenkin’s ear?

Answer 12

War of the asientos

Question 13

What’s the Family compact? (1733)

Answer 13

France and Spain securing their alliance

Question 14

Which monarch’s succession is involved in the War of the Jenkin’s ear?

Answer 14

Maria Teresa, Austrian monarch

Question 15

Of what consists the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle - fin guerre de succession d’Autriche

Answer 15

France gives away India in order to keep Louisbourg

Question 16

George Washington came from …

Answer 16

Virginia

Question 17

What war is considered as the first global war?

Answer 17

The seven years war

Question 18

What was the first big colonial Congress?

Answer 18

Albany Congress (1754)

Question 19

What was the purpose of the Albany Congress?

Answer 19

formulate the defence of the colonies

Question 20

T or F: The colonies accept the Albany Plan of Union that would institute a pan-colonial parliament

Answer 20

False, they all wanted to keep their independence

Question 21

What was the result of Braddock’s expedition to New France and the Battle of Monongahela?

Answer 21

The French knew of the expedition
Massacre for the British (80% casualties)
Both sides increased their forces

Question 22

Who did Britain ally with during the 7 years war?

Answer 22

Prussia (the most powerful german state)

Question 23

France allies with … (7 years war)

Answer 23

Austria (long lasted enemies!)

Question 24

What was France strategy in the 7 years war?

Answer 24

Win the war in Europe and regain the colonies after

Question 25

T or F: Britain is dominant in the early years of the war

Answer 25

False, France is. (due to alliance with first nations)

Question 26

T or F: British and Cherokee were allies

Answer 26

False, the Cherokee didn’t feel like allies, it resulted in a war between them

Question 27

Where are the Acadian deported?

Answer 27

Back to France, to the Falkland islands, etc. (10 000 acadians)

Question 28

What was Pitt’s strategy in the global 7 years war?

Answer 28

Conquest of India Naval Supremacy Partnering with colonial assemblies Conquest of French and Spanish possessions in West Indies Pacific and Africa

Question 29

T or F: Battle of Plaines d’Abraham was a easy english win

Answer 29

False, it was a luchy win!

Question 30

What did Pontiac try to do?

Answer 30

Unite the different first nations groups against the english. It was first succesful

Question 31

What hindered Pontiac projects?

Answer 31

Long-term Wars with first nations are difficult, they dont share the same goals and will loose interest in fighting with each other

Question 32

What the economic impact of the 7 years war?

Answer 32

Record debt in Britain Colonial merchant class grows in wealth and power Britain is reliant in colonial trade

Question 33

Why do the colonies want their relationship with the metropole to change?

Answer 33

Because they’ve developed their own consciousness (growth in population and economy)

Question 34

What was the purpose of the Royal Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 34

Regulate Western expansion of the colonies. They can no longer be purchased by colonists

Question 35

What is the Sugar act

Answer 35

Act that meant to boost imports from the British colonies

Question 36

What does the Currency Act imply?

Answer 36

The colonies were prohibited to furnish their own paper currency, because the metropole was short on cash

Question 37

What was the result of the acts on English colonies?

Answer 37

Committees in Colonies wanted to limit the reforms

Question 38

T or F: Aftert he 7 years at was the first time Britain wanted to levy direct taxes in the colonies

Answer 38

True

Question 39

What event marks a shift where colonies/metropole see each other as political opponents?

Answer 39

Passage of the Stamp act in 1765

Question 40

What was the stamp act?

Answer 40

The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards

Question 41

What the crux of the debate between colonial and metropole government

Answer 41

Colonies were founded on an older (pre 1688 Glorious Rev) conception of the British constitution - Therefore, colonies did not agree with parliamentary supremacy

Question 42

What was the people’s reaction to the Stamp Act?

Answer 42

Creation of protest groups civil disobedience and violence agains courts, customs officials, and gov buildings Stamp Act Congress etc.

Question 43

T or F: the West indies and Maritimes protested equally because of the Stamp Act

Answer 43

False, there was far less unrest than in the 13 colonies

Question 44

T or F: For the first time during the protests against Stamp Act, the colonies felt like their interests were more aligned

Answer 44

True

Question 45

What were the colonies agreement regarding the Stamp Act

Answer 45

They would organize a petition for the King The reserved themselves the right of levying taxes in the colonies

Question 46

Examples of the Townshend acts

Answer 46

Revenue act Commissioners of Custom Act Vice-admiralty court Act

Question 47

Date of the Boston massacre?

Answer 47

1770

Question 48

What was the tea act?

Answer 48

The British government granted the East indian company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.

Question 49

T or F: The tea act and the Boston Tea party caused a permanent break between the colonies and Britain

Answer 49

True

Question 50

What ideological argument to turn against British gov came up in the colonies?

Answer 50

The idea that liberty is fragile (opposed to power) and that the Parliament threatens the colonies liberty