Short Answer Test

Question 1

Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union.
What would this Plan do?
Why was it defeated by the colonial legislatures?

Answer 1

part 1: to create a unified government for the 13 Colonies

part 2: colonial legislatures feared the government would give up too much political control

Question 2

why was the Battle of Quebec the turning point of the French and Indian War?

Answer 2

• Quebec was so mighty that Wolfe was forced to starve his troops for two and a half months
• Wolfe snuck and attacked the other troops
• after capturing Quebec the rest of Canada quickly fell

Question 3

2 Causes of Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 3

cause 1: increasing number of colonists who moved into Native American Land
cause 2: British soldiers did not treat Natives Americans like the French had

Question 4

2 effects of Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 4

effect 1: attacks on both colonist and Native Americans

effect 2: passage of proclaimation

Question 5

describe land claim of North America based on the Treaty of Paris after the French and Indian War

Answer 5

• all French territory on North America was lost
• British received Ohio Valley
• New Orleans and Louisiana Territory went to Spain

Question 6

describe the Boston Massacre

Answer 6

• a street fight occurred between a Patriot mob and British soliders
• significant because it helped a certain section of the Colonial Society

Question 7

describe the Sugar Act

Answer 7

merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importion of foreign molasses

Question 8

describe the Stamp Act

Answer 8

the tax was imposed on all American Colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used

Question 9

describe the Townshed Act

Answer 9

set up a new way to collect taxes

Question 10

how did the colonists protect the acts?

Answer 10

stopped buying British goods

Question 11

accomplished during the 1st and 2nd continental congress

Answer 11

1st: compact among the colonies to boycott British goods
2nd: managed the colonial war effort

Question 12

describe the contents of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 12

section 1: statement of beliefs and rights
section 2: what King George did to them
section 3: declaring independence
section 4: signatures

Question 13

describe Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and it’s impact

Answer 13

• pamphlet that inspired people to declare and fight for their independence
• (impact) to influence American Colonists to embrace there independence

Question 14

significance of Bunker Hill

Answer 14

provided them with an important confidence boost

Question 15

significance of Saratoga

Answer 15

turning point of the Revolutionary Wat

Question 16

significance of Yorktown

Answer 16

most important battle of Revolutionary War

Question 17

what year did the Revolutionary War start and end?

Answer 17

April 1775 - September 1783