APUSH: Chapter 6, 7, and 8 [DONE]

Question 1

_{<span>Describe America at the beginning with the 17th century</span>}

Answer 1

War filled; there have been 9 wars since 1688 and America has been involved in all of them

Question 2

Why was France finally able to join in the scramble for colonies in the New World?

Answer 2

France was convulsed with foreign wars and domestic strife (notably, the clashes b/t the Roman Catholics and Protestant Huguenots)

Question 3

Describe the government in New France (Canada)

Answer 3

fell under direct control of the king after various commercial companies had faltered or failed.

Question 4

Primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was?

Answer 4

Beavers

Question 5

New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned what to France in 1748

Answer 5

Louisbourg

Question 6

Reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was?

Answer 6

because it was the key to the continent that they wanted to possess

Question 7

Describe George Washington’s first military command in the French and Indian War

Answer 7

Washington built a fort at the bottom of the valley (Fort Necessity); there was a 10 hour siege and then was forced to surrender his entire command in July 1754; he was allowed to march his men away excluding their weapons

Question 8

Purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to?

Answer 8

achieve greater colonial unity and strengthen the common defense against France

Question 9

Why was Benjamin Franklin’s plan for colonial home rule rejected by the individual colonies?

Answer 9

Colonists thought that it didn’t give them enough independence; British officials believed it gave them too much independence

Question 10

What did the Seven Years’ War do to the American Colonies?

Answer 10

colonists refused to provide troops annd money for the conflict, they demanded the rights of englishmen without the duties and responsibilities of Englishmen; later got bribed by William Pitt to defend themselves against the enemy

Question 11

after the defeat of Chief Pontiac and his alliance, Britain decided to do?

Answer 11

The London Gov. issued the proclamation of 1763 - it prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachians.

Question 12

Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because…?

Answer 12

they lost their most powerful diplomatic weapon - the ability to play off the rival European powers against one another

Question 13

What was the purpose of issuing the Proclamation of 1763? fepkp

Answer 13

to work out the Indian problems

Question 14

American response to the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 14

they were angered and dismayed at this because they believed the land was a part of their birthright

Question 15

concerning the Revolution, American Colonists were..?

Answer 15

“reluctant revolutionaries” and sought to claim the “rights of englishmen”, not to separate from the mother country

Question 16

Republicanism: a just society depends on…?

Answer 16

the virtue of citizenry

Question 17

Radical Whigs feared that…?

Answer 17

the threat to liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch

Question 18

Mercantilists believed that…?

Answer 18

wealth was power and that a country’s wealth could be measured by the amount of silver or gold they contained in the treasurty

Question 19

Purpose of Navigation Laws before 1763?

Answer 19

they were made to regulate colonial shipping, but was ignored by colonists

Question 20

Why did colonists dislike the Mercanitile System?

Answer 20

Burdened colonists with liabilities, stifled economic initiative, imposed a ranking dependency on British agents and creditors, felt it was debasing, and they felt like they were being used.

Question 21

Benefits of Mercantile System?

Answer 21

believed that Britain lived for the colonies, London paid liberal bounties to colonial producers of ship parts, Virginia got a monopoly in the British market, colonists gained protection from mightiest navy and a strong army of redcoats w/o the cost of a cent

Question 22

affect of the Stamp Act?

Answer 22

Americans were angry and believed it was a strike against their local liberties; some Colonial Assemblies refused to comply with the quartering act or voted only a fraction of the supplies that it called for

Question 23

Effect of the Sugar Act?

Answer 23

increased duty on foreign sugar imported from the west indies; duties were lowered after protests from colonists

Question 24

Events in chronological order? –> Sugar Act, Declaratory Act, Stamp Act, and repeal of the Stamp Act.

Answer 24

Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Stamp Act repeal, and Declaratory Act

Question 25

what does virtual representation represent?

Answer 25

Greenville claimed that every member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even those Americans in Boston or Charleston who hadn’t voted for any of the members of Parliament

Question 26

What did Samuel Adams do?

Answer 26

organized a resistance to the Stamp Act and helped found the Committees of Corrsepondance

Question 27

What did John Adams do?

Answer 27

was a member of the continental congress; was appointed to write the Declaration of Independence, but Thomas Jefferson wrote most of it

Question 28

Why were the local committees of correspondance organized by Samuel Adams

Answer 28

b/c he cherished a deep faith in the common people and he lived for politics

Question 29

when Parliament passed the Tea Act, how did the colonists react?

Answer 29

Boston Tea Party

Question 30

What was the most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 30

The Quartering Act; gave local authorities the power to lodge British soldiers anywhere, even in private homes.

Question 31

Purpose of the First Continental Congress?

Answer 31

to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances

Question 32

Decisions made at first continental congress?

Answer 32

drafted the Articles of Association, where they boycotted British goods completely and ceased exports to Britain as well.

Question 33

Result of Parliament rejecting petitions of Continental congress?

Answer 33

Boston troops were sent out to capture rebels and seize store containing gun poweder

Question 34

advantages of colonies in war for independence?

Answer 34

great leadership (George Washington), foreign aid = France

Question 35

Why did the 2nd continetal congress meet in 1775?

Answer 35

in hopes of drafting new appeals and to help the army and navy

Question 36

most important action of the 2nd continental congress was?

Answer 36

drafting the declaration of independence

Question 37

King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellion just after…?

Answer 37

the colonists attempted to seize Bunker Hill, but failed.

Question 38

What is the OIive Branch Petition?

Answer 38

a petition that professed American loyalty to the crown and begged the king to prevent further hostilities after Bunker Hill.

Question 39

Significance of the colonists’ invasion of Canada in 1775?

Answer 39

it showed that the colonists werent just fighting for a redress of grievances

Question 40

purpose of declaration of independence?

Answer 40

to cut ties with British control

Question 41

Power comes from what in a republic?

Answer 41

it comes from the people who chose representatives and elected them into office

Question 42

The resolution that “These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states…” was introduced into the Second Continental Congress by Virginia delegate

Answer 42

RICHARD HENRY LEE!!

Question 43

What did most Americans consider fundamental for any successful republican government?

Answer 43

Citizen “virtue”, which meant that colonists needed to sacrifice their personal self-interest to the public good

Question 44

Which individual privately advocated equality of women?

Answer 44

Abigail Adams

Question 45

What are loyalists? Patriots? Loyalists were known as…? Patriots?

Answer 45

Loyalists = ppl who stayed loyal to the King and they were called Tories; Patriots = ppl who wanted independence and they were called whigs

Question 46

Loyalists made up about what percent of the American ppl?

Answer 46

16%

Question 47

What battle revelaed “Old Fox” Washington at his military best?

Answer 47

when he captured 1,000 Hessians in Trenton

Question 48

Battle of Saratoga was a key victory because it…?

Answer 48

revived the faltering colonial cause and it made it possible for France to become America’s foreign aid

Question 49

why did France come to America’s aid in the revolution?

Answer 49

to get their revenge against Britain for the 7 years’ war

Question 50

why did Britain give America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 50

b/c they were trying to get America to abandon their alliance with France