Ch6 Severing Ties with Great Britain 1754-1783

Question 1

When was the french and Indian war

Answer 1

1754-1763

Question 2

Who was the french and Indian war between

Answer 2

England and France

Question 3

How did the war begin?

Answer 3

As a struggle for control of the upper Ohio river valley

Question 4

What was the Albany plan and who promoted it?

Answer 4

Common defense against French & NA threats to the frontier

Ben franklin

Question 5

Franklin’s famous “join/die” cartoon illustrated what

Answer 5

The need for colonial unity

Question 6

Why did the Albany plan fail?

Answer 6

Colonial assemblies did not want to give up their autonomy

Question 7

What ended the Seven Years War and who won?

Answer 7

Britain won

The peace of Paris 1763 ended french power in North America

Question 8

What effect did the war have on Native Americans?

Answer 8

Now that France had no influence within the colonies, NA could no longer trade with their allies

Question 9

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 9

Prohibited colonists from settling west of the appalachians (this was ignored)

Question 10

What caused salutary neglect from Britain to end

Answer 10

The massive debt caused by the war

Question 11

Stamp Act

3 things

Answer 11

• Issued to raise revenue in order to pay for British troops stationed in America after the war
• first internal&direct tax
• tax on all colonial printed matter

Question 12

What did colonial leaders use as their argument against the stamp act?

Answer 12

Only their assemblies had the power to raise taxes

Question 13

Sons and daughters of liberty

Answer 13

Used the threat of violence to persuade every stamp agent to resign

Question 14

What was a key slogan after the stamp act was issued

Answer 14

No taxation without representation

Question 15

How did parliament respond to colonial boycotts

Answer 15

They repealed the stamp act

Issued the declaratory act which reasserted authority over the colonies

Question 16

Townshend act 1767

Answer 16

• Imposed taxes on everyday items in order to pay military expenses
• reignited the dispute over taxation

Question 17

What happened after the Boston massacre (led by Samuel Adams)

Answer 17

Parliament repealed all Townshend acts except the one on tea

Question 18

In what ways did Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party

Answer 18

Issued the Coercive and Intolerable acts

Question 19

First continental congress

Answer 19

Called for complete boycott of British goods and urged the colonies to organize an army

Question 20

Second continental congress (1775)

Answer 20

George Washington becomes president

Question 21

In what ways did parliament further restrict freedom of the colonists

Answer 21

Issuance of..

• proclamation of 1763
• quartering act if 1765
• intolerable acts

Question 22

Republicanism

Answer 22

Political ideology backing the revolution

:state without a prince that is governed by reps of the people

Question 23

Common Sense

Answer 23

Published in 1776 by Thomas Paine

Persuaded colonists to declare independence from Britain

Question 24

True or false:

The declaration called for the abolition of slavery

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Who inspired ideologies captures within the Declaration of Independence

Answer 25

John Locke

Question 26

6 reasons the odds were against America in terms of the war

Answer 26

1) Britain had the best army in the world
2) most Americans were neutral
3) there was trouble raising an army
4) Americans were scattered over a large territory
5) there was no way to finance the war
6) britains population =4x that of the Us

Question 27

Who provided the most support to America during the revolution?

Answer 27

France

Question 28

Why did America struggle to finance the war? What did this lead to?

Answer 28

Congress had no authority to levy taxes

This lead to the issuance of paper money which triggered inflation

Question 29

The treaty of Paris in 1783 enabled the United States to do what?

Answer 29

Double its size

Question 30

What question arises after the revolution?

Answer 30

What type of nation will America be?

Question 31

2 ways in which the revolution changed America

Answer 31

• Men with less property were able to join political offices

- Thomas Jefferson removed religious requirements for voting; states disestablished their established churches

Question 32

Between 1777 and 1804 what did States north of Maryland do?

Answer 32

Emancipate slaves

Question 33

What did Abigail Adams do?

Answer 33

Encouraged her husband to remember the ladies

Question 34

Judith Sargent Murray

Answer 34

Advocated education for women in her book “on the equality of the sexes”

Question 35

Republican motherhood

Answer 35

Stressed that a women’s job in the American republic was to raise children to be responsible citizens