Chapter 5

Question 1

What three factors increased the danger of the French threat to the thirteen colonies?

Answer 1

The French alliance with the Indians, the American frontier was ill defined and isolated, the colonies were unable to present a united front

Question 2

What were the American names for the four wars fought by Britain and France between 1689 and 1763?

Answer 2

King William’s war, Queen Anne’s war, King George’s war, and the French and Indian war

Question 3

What event sparked the French and Indian War?

Answer 3

George Washington’s vain attempt to clear the French from the forks of the Ohio river

Question 4

What was the chief British disadvantage in the French and Indian War?

Answer 4

The lack of unity in the colonies

Question 5

Why was Braddock defeated so decisively at Fort Duquesne?

Answer 5

He truer to use European style with upfront everybody on deck assault, while the French and Indians used guerrilla warfare which is more stealthy and packed in small groups

Question 6

Who were the two greatest military commanders of the French and Indian War?

Answer 6

James Wolfe and montecalm

Question 7

What is “the power of the purse”?

Answer 7

To control the financial matters such as salaries for royal officials

Question 8

Why did Parliament establish the Proclamation Line of 1763? Why did the colonists oppose it?

Answer 8

Parliament hoped that the line would reduce conflicts between the colonists and the Indians. The colonists thought that the line intruded on the pier local government because their local charter had granted those lands

Question 9

Name three of the acts of Parliament after the French and Indian War that created tension between Great Britain and its colonies.

Answer 9

The proclamation line, the sugar act, the stamp act, the quartering act, and the Townsend act

Question 10

What city was the site of a “massacre” in 1770?

Answer 10

Boston

Question 11

What was William Pitt’s three-part plan to win the French and Indian War?

Answer 11

1. Let Prussia bear the brunt of fighting in Europe
2. Use the British navy to isolate the French forces in America and India
3. Replace old commanders with young, and energetic commanders

Question 12

What two expeditions provided the basis for French claims to the New World?

Answer 12

1. The expedition of Joliet and marquette

2. The expedition of le salle