1760's

Question 1

What royal proclamation was made in October 1763?

Answer 1

Colonists couldn’t go past proclamation line in the Appalachian mountains, 10k troops placed on line

Question 2

What happened in the 1763 Peace of Paris?

Answer 2

French relinquished all of Canada, greater lakes and east Mississippi to the British - needed to create new colonial system as territory had more than doubled

Question 3

What caused Pontiac’s rebellion, when and where was it fought?

Answer 3

Lakes Michigan and Huron, eastern Illinois and Ohio, British vs NA, NA feared that British would take their land?

Question 4

What did General Jeffrey Amherst do during Pontiac’s rebellion?

Answer 4

Reduced gifts to NA Chiefs, limited ammunition and gun powder sold to NA to prevent uprising, but mainly used for hunting and fur skin trade

Question 5

What happened during Pontiac’s rebellion?

Answer 5

NA attacked british troops and slaughtered people, British military put bounty on NA above age of 10

Question 6

What were the Casualties of Pontiac’s rebellion?

Answer 6

450 British soldiers killed, 2k settlers killed 4k fled, estimated under 1/2 million NA died, mainly due to Small pox epidemic - unreliable nos

Question 7

What were the colonists attitudes to British military intervention?

Answer 7

They felt that they didnt require it

Question 8

What did William Pitt do during the 7 years war?

Answer 8

1757 militia act meant more troops to protect the colonies, sent 25k troops under lord Amherst and Wolfe, 45k troops sent by 1758, changed policy of British troops taking precedence over colonial troops

Question 9

What did Pitt do in regard to finances during the 7 years war?

Answer 9

Paid the Prussians to attack France so they couldn’t reinforce, Pitt secured loans and increased taxes to fund war

Question 10

How did the Navy help Britain win the 7 years war?

Answer 10

French couldn’t supply troops (starve), couldn’t send reinforcements, attack on Louisbourg not possible w/out naval supremacy, Lord Anson (first lord of admiralty) carried reforms which allowed expansion of navy

Question 11

How did French weakness help the Colonies during the 7 years war?

Answer 11

Small numbers, lived in infertile conditions so depended on imports, couldn’t trade w/ NA so NA less willing to help French

Question 12

Who were the key individuals of the 7 years war?

Answer 12

Lord Loudon introduced Militia, and came up w/ tactics for Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal, Duke of Newcastle persuaded Pitt to send finances to Prussia, him and Pitt convinced George II and help raise funds for the war

Question 13

How had national debt been impacted by the 7 years war?

Answer 13

It had nearly doubled

Question 14

What did the April 1764 Sugar Act entail?

Answer 14

Price of molasses from 6d per gallon to 3d, taxed other foreign goods like wine and coffee, caused a decline in rum industry, couldn’t trade w/ foreign places e.g. madeira and canary islands, gave customs officials more power to actually collect taxes, custom officials fined if they took bribes

Question 15

What minor acts did George Grenville pass?

Answer 15

Custom officials had to live in NA, allowed judges to enforce law by reducing partisan juries

Question 16

Why did the stamp act cause tension in the colony?

Answer 16

Gave it a year’s notice, anything paper had to have a stamp, levied @ a lower rate in America, estimated to raise £60K in first year - 1/4 amount needed for colonial defence. It was the first direct tax levied by parliament, should colonists be taxed by a body in which they weren’t represented

Question 17

What were the 7 resolutions in the Virginia resolves?

Answer 17

Colonists: possessed right of englishmen, protected by charter, only to be taxed if they had proper representation, had right to give consent to law; only colonial assembly could tax colonists, by end of 1765 8 other colonies had published similar resolutions

Question 18

When was the stamp act repealed?

Answer 18

1766

Question 19

What happened in October 1765?

Answer 19

Boycott of British goods- started by sons of liberty

Question 20

What act followed after the repealing of the Stamp act?

Answer 20

The declaratory act - can still tax colonists and pass legislation in them

Question 21

What were the Townshend Duties?

Answer 21

1767 - Chancellor Charles Townshend believed America should pay more for troops living there so taxed imports on external trade, aim to ensure colonists accepted that elected assemblies were subordinate to british parliament

Question 22

What was the reaction to the Townshend duties?

Answer 22

In 1768 Massachusetts denounced it, in 1769 all british colonies bar New Hampshire boycotting British trade, Massachusetts told to repeal letter, they didn’t so the governor shut down the colonial assembly

Question 23

What the 1765 quartering act?

Answer 23

Give british troops a place to stay and food - enforced in Townshend duties

Question 24

What did Townshend do in reaction to New York denying the quartering act?

Answer 24

Passed 1767 NY restraining act - suspended assembly until it complied

Question 25

When and who formed the Sons of liberty?

Answer 25

Samuel Adams and John Hancock - 1765

Question 26

What was published in 1768?

Answer 26

‘Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer’ - John Dickinson, an attack on the Townshend Duties

Question 27

What was the April 1764 Currency act?

Answer 27

Banned colonial currency, made it harder for colonists to pay off debt as only British currency could be used, as british merchants wanted british currency, came @ end of war - severe economic depression, deflation caused by act, threatened navy with bankruptcy