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Question 1

What was the primary purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754?

Answer 1

The primary purpose of the Albany Congress was to keep the Iroquois Indians on the French side so the Iroquois Indians could assist the French battle

Question 2

Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union in 1754?

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin

Question 3

What was determined as a result of The Peace of Paris?

Answer 3

The French gave up all of their territories that they had in North America at the end of the American Revolution.

Question 4

the Proclamation Line of 1763 proclaimed what?

Answer 4

King George proclaimed to the colonies that they should not go west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 5

What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?

Answer 5

The purpose of the Navigation Acts was to control the government trade between England and the colonies. It also prevented smuggling and made more formal rules pertaining to commerce.

Question 6

The colonial outcry of “no taxation without representation”is in relation to what?

Answer 6

The Stamp Act & The Sugar Tax

Question 7

How does “Salutary neglect” affect the colonists before and after the French and Indian War?

Answer 7

The Salutary Neglect affected the colonists before and after the French and Indian war because it caused some American colonists to become more independent from the British along with Parliament.

Question 8

Pontiacs rebellions

Answer 8

A rebellion led by the Native Americans after the French and Indian War, led by the Ottawa Chief, Pontiac. The Native Americans, Ottawa tribe, were against the British expanding their territories and went so far as to destroy the nearby British forts. When Pontiac died, the attacks ended.

Question 9

Enlightenment

Answer 9

A major movement that took place between the late 17th century to the end of the 18th century, it highlighted science and reasoning instead of religion.

Question 10

Primogeniture

Answer 10

Succession belonging to the first born male.

Question 11

Know 2 main imperial policies that British soldiers were intended to carry out as a result of the Quartering Act of 1765

Answer 11

Two main imperial policies that British soldiers were intended to carry out as a result of the Quartering Act was being stricter about smuggling and enforcing impressment.

Question 12

Currency Act

Answer 12

A British proposition that the colonies that the colonies form of currency were to be gold/silver in 1764

Question 13

Stamp Act

Answer 13

Colonists would have to pay a tax in order to tet papers stamped in 1765

Question 14

Declaratory Act

Answer 14

An Act of 1766 that announced Parliament’s power to pass any law that would make the peoples and colonies of North America get closer to each other.

Question 15

Townshend Acts

Answer 15

In 1767, this act was created as an import tax on items such as paper, tea, led, glass, and paint

Question 16

Intolerable Acts

Answer 16

In 1774 the boundaries of Quebec were extended all the way to Ohio River Valley. This was for the American colonists to use.

Question 17

Coercive Acts

Answer 17

This act resulted in the part of Boston being temporarily shut down until the residents paid for the things that had been damaged

Question 18

What was the main point of the Virginia Resolves?

Answer 18

No taxation without representation

Question 19

How did women contribute to the Colonial Patriot Cause?

Answer 19

Women contributed to the Colonial Patriot Cause by not drinking or giving out British tea

Question 20

Understand the famous propaganda etching from Paul Revere displaying the Boston Massacre

Answer 20

The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770 between British soldiers and a group of patriots. The etching was Patriot propaganda and was biased of how the events actually went down. It showed the British to be organized as they shoot innocent people. (Captain Thomas Preston’s orders to the British) This event resulted in several colonists being killed.

Question 21

The Sons of Liberty and their role in the Boston Tea Party

Answer 21

The Sons of Liberty boarded some docked ships and dumped nearly 350 chests of tea into the harbor

Question 22

Patriots

Answer 22

The American colonists who were for the American Revolution(Whigs)

Question 23

Loyalists

Answer 23

These were the American colonists who were against the American Revolution and remained loyal to Britain/King

Question 24

Common Sense

Answer 24

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which played a role in convincing the colonists to become independent of Britain, therefore introducing the idea of the American Revolution

Question 25

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 25

This petition from the Continental Congress was rejected by King George which caused him to view the colonies as rebellious because of it.

Question 26

Declaration of Independence

Answer 26

This letter (approved through Congress), mainly written by Thomas Jeerson, aided the Americans in getting the much needed and useful help that was required for them in gaining true independence from Britain.

Question 27

Second Continental Congress

Answer 27

A group of delegates, one from each colony and this is where the Declaration of Independence was rst drafted