Road To Revolution

Question 0

What contributed to early British defeats in the French & Indian war?

Answer 0

French alliances with native Americans like powerful Iroquois nation who believed the British.

Question 1

What caused conflict between Britain and France in the Ohio valley?

Answer 1

French determination to halt westward expansion by the english who were pushing west into the French & Native American lands

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Albany plan of union? Why did the colonial assemblies reject the Albany plan

Answer 2

Provide away for the English colonies to work togethercall it is you’re not willing to give up their power in they wanted taxes and armies

Question 3

What turned the tide in favor of Britain

Answer 3

New and better British leadership

Question 4

What battle ultimately changed the course of the French and Indian war in favor of the british?

Answer 4

Battle of Quebec– climbed a steep cliff at night surprising the French

Question 5

How did the British victory affect the French? Native Americans of the Ohio valley? The English colonists ?

Answer 5

Marked the end of France as a power in North America; hurt the native Americans because hey lost their French allies/trading partners, and they could not stop english settlers from moving onto their land; colonists saw themselves separate from Britain

Question 6

What happened during Pontiac’s war?

Answer 6

The leader of the Ottawa nation helped start an all out stack on the British

Question 7

What was the purpose is the proclamation on 1763

Answer 7

Colonial settlers were to remain wast os the Appalachian mountains and were not to go any further west

Question 8

What did native Americans gain through the proclamation of 1763

Answer 8

A temporary halting of colonial settlement west of the Appalachia mountains

Question 9

How did the French and Indian war contribute to the american revolution?

Answer 9

Parliament raised taxes on the colonies to help pay the cost of the war(“no taxation without representation”)

Question 10

Why did the colonists object to the sugar act?

Answer 10

Writs of assistance authorized by the sugar act allowed citizens homes to be searched for smuggled goods (this violated colonists right to be secure in their own homes.)

Question 11

Which act places a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies?

Answer 11

Stamp act

Question 12

What did the Townsend act specify?

Answer 12

Britain would only tax imports into the country

Question 13

How did colonists react to the Townshend acts?

Answer 13

By staging boycotts

Question 14

Who were the sons and daughters of liberty?

Answer 14

Colonial anti-British protests

Question 15

What was the purpose of the commitees of correspondence?

Answer 15

To keep the colonist informed of British actions

Question 16

What was the British east India company?

Answer 16

An important British business that sold tea from India

Question 17

Why did colonists resent the tea acts?

Answer 17

It put a British monopoly on tea

Question 18

What resulted for the coercive acts (punishment for the Boston tea party.)

Answer 18

Parliament places limits on colonists right to call town meetings; closed Boston port.

Question 19

Name the colonial leaders that emerges as tensions with Britain grew.

Answer 19

Samuel Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and John handcock

Question 20

What was the first step the first continental congress took in preparation for war?

Answer 20

Forming an army

Question 21

Describe the conflicting arguments of colonists and Britain concerning taxes?

Answer 21

Britain had gone deeply into debt during the French and Indian war. It was also expensive to keep British troops in North America to defend settlements. Britain also argued that colonists should pay taxes to pay for those debts. Colonists say that they are separate from Britain and argued that that should not be taxed especially since they had had no representation in parliament.