Q's

Question 1

Quakers

Answer 1

members of a religious sect who held many controversial beliefs, such as that all persons had an “inner light” that allowed them to commune directly with God; that human institutions were, for the most part, unnecessary; that the Bible was of little importance; and that they need not show customary deference to those who were considered to be their social superiors

Question 2

Quartering Act

Answer 2

a law, pushed through the British Parliament by Prime Minister George Grenville, requiring the colonies in which British troops were stationed to pay for their maintenance

Question 3

Quebec

Answer 3

a trading post, established in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, from which the rest of what became New France eventually spread in Canada and through the Great Lakes region and the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers

Question 4

Quebec Act

Answer 4

an act passed by the British Parliament that extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio River, established Roman Catholicism as Quebec’s official religion, and set up for Quebec a government without a representative assembly

Question 5

Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)

Answer 5

known in Europe as the “War of the Spanish Succession,” a conflict involving twelve years of sporadic British and American fighting against France and Spain