Deck 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
French and Indian War (Seven Years´ War)

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Proclamation of 1763

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Albany Congress

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert de La Salle

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Wolfe

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Franklin

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Pitt

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marquis de Montcalm

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg)

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis XIV

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Iroquois

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pontiac

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fort Necessity

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Huguenots

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edward Braddock

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Washington

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louisbourg

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish Succession)

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fort Duquesne

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel de Champlain

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
guerrilla warfare

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Join,or Die"

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
War of Jenkins´s Ear

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edict of Nantes

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Orleans

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jesuits

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
King George´s War (War of the Austrian Succession)

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
voyageurs

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
scalping

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ohio Valley

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Boone

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louisiana

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
British regulars

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Paris (1763)

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New France

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
coureurs de bois

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Acadia

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
beaver fur trade

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Québec

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Peace of Utrecht

Question 41

The soldier and explorer whose leadership earned him the title "Father of New France" was

A) Samuel de Champlain.
B) Robert de La Salle.
C) Antoine Cadillac.
D) Pierre Des Moines.
E) Louis de Montcalm

Question 42

Which statement best describes the place of New France (Canada)in the burgeoning French Empire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

A) It was given highest priority as a source of much-needed timber and valuable beaver furs.
B) It was seen as a strategic way station to more valuable colonies in the East Indies.
C) It was expendable, not worth defending from British encroachment.
D) It was a critical safety valve for easing religious tensions in France through emigration.
E) It was secondary to the sugar-rich island colonies in the Caribbean.

Question 43

The coureurs de bois were

A) French soldiers.
B) mixed-race descendants of French and Indians.
C) Jesuit priests.
D) French farmers.
E) French fur trappers.

Question 44

Which of the following best characterized the early wars between France and Britain in North America?

A) The deployment of professional troops by both sides
B) The avoidance of civilian casualties wherever possible
C) The importance of Indian alliances with the British against the French
D) The substantial use of guerrilla warfare
E) The alliance between Britain and Spain against the French

Question 45

The French gained control of Louisiana because they

A) preferred its climate.
B) saw New Orleans as a potential center of French culture.
C) regarded it as a way to command the mouth of the Mississippi and keep the Spanish in check.
D) hoped to spread Catholicism throughout the Mississippi Valley.
E) saw it as a new center for the fur trade.

Question 46

What is NOT a reason for the slow growth of population in New France?

A) French peasants had little economic incentive to migrate.
B) Religious minorities were not permitted to emigrate.
C) The French government favored its Caribbean island colonies over New France.
D) The colony was unable to sustain itself economically.
E) The government was almost completely autocratic.

Question 47

What triggered the Anglo-French conflict in 1754 that inaugurated the French and Indian War?

A) British speculators, mostly Virginians, claimed land in the Ohio Valley where the French were erecting forts to control the Ohio River.
B) The British attempted to build forts along the Ohio River to inhibit French trade.
C) An intense rivalry developed between England and France for the friendship of the local Iroquois tribes.
D) French and British fisherman clashed over fishing rights off the cod-rich coasts of lower Canada and New England.
E) Both countries wanted control of the Mississippi trade at the disputed settlement of New Orleans.

Question 48

What role did the French Huguenots play in the early history of French colonization?

A) They were targets of government persecution in the religious wars that wracked France in the 1500s and inhibited colonization efforts.
B) Their calls for a religious refuge in the New World succeeded, resulting in the first permanent French settlement in Canada.
C) Their triumph over Catholicism with the Edict of Nantes transformed France into a Protestant nation whose colonies would serve as Catholic refuges.
D) Their military prowess was critical in enabling France to win its early colonial wars against Britain.
E) Their missionary zeal was vital to France´s ability to secure Indian allies in North America.

Question 49

What did the Peace of Utrecht accomplish?

A) It halted settlement in British territory west of the Appalachians, inflaming colonial resentment.
B) It inaugurated a long peace in Europe that lasted throughout the eighteenth century.
C) It transferred Acadia (Nova Scotia), Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay from French to British control.
D) It gave Spanish Florida to the British.
E) It ceded to the Dutch all of France´s island colonies in the Caribbean.

Question 50

Which event paved the way for France finally to join in the scramble for colonies in the New World?

A) Protestant takeover of the French government
B) Edict of Nantes that ended the religious wars
C) Accession of Louis XIV to the French throne
D) St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
E) Seven Years' War

Question 51

Unlike in the English colonies in America,in New France

A) there were no popularly elected assemblies.
B) the crown was largely uninterested in colonial expansion.
C) the population grew very rapidly.
D) no valuable resources for exploitation existed.
E) the government encouraged religious dissenters to come to the colonies.

Question 52

The climactic clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of which area?

A) Caribbean islands
B) Ohio River Valley
C) Mississippi River Valley
D) Great Lakes
E) St. Lawrence River

Question 53

The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was

A) farming.
B) fishing.
C) mining.
D) fur trapping.
E) wine-making.

Question 54

What role did Indian tribes play in the early clashes between France and Britain in North America?

A) The French voyageurs and Jesuit missionaries fought alongside their Huron allies, but the British spurned any potential Indian allies.
B) Both the French coureurs de bois and British colonists sought Indian allies.
C) The Iroquois Confederation took the strife between French and English as an opportunity to launch a large-scale, coordinated attack on all colonists.
D) Indian tribes wanted no part of the Europeans´ disputes and remained above the fray.
E) Indian leaders proved essential peacemakers in ending warfare and negotiating treaties between British and French officials.

Question 55

What larger issue drove the British and Spanish to war over one sea captain´s tale of woe in the War of Jenkins´s ear?

A) Territorial rivalry in Louisiana
B) Slave rebellion
C) Ill feeling bred by smuggling
D) Protestant immigration to Spanish Catholic colonies
E) Entanglements with Indian conflicts in Mississippi

Question 56

The Jesuit priests played a vital role in New France because of their

A) success in winning converts to Catholicism.
B) strong educational system they founded.
C) ability to establish peaceful relations with the Indians.
D) involvement in managing the fur trade.
E) exploration and work as geographers.

Question 57

Which statement about French relations with the Indians in New France is FALSE?

A) Indians were excluded from the fur business.
B) Indian numbers were decimated by diseases and alcohol.
C) French Jesuit missionaries attempted to convert the Indians.
D) Destruction of the beaver violated Indians' beliefs and inflicted ecological damage.
E) The French alliance with the Hurons made the Iroquois their enemies.

Question 58

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

A) Hudson Bay
B) Acadia
C) Louisbourg
D) Newfoundland
E) Nova Scotia

Question 59

Where and when did France plant its first permanent settlement in the New World?

A) Nova Scotia in 1594
B) New Orleans in 1718
C) Fort Duquesne in 1756
D) Québec in 1608
E) Detroit in 1631

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pontiac's uprising

Question 61

When William Pitt became prime minister during the French and Indian War,he

A) ended Parliament's practice of reimbursing the colonies for their war-related expenditures.
B) ordered a full-scale assault on the French West Indies.
C) turned to a strategy of blockade and slow strangling of the French settlements.
D) focused his military strategy on the capture of Montreal and Québec.
E) relied on the British aristocracy for his primary political support.

Question 62

As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne,

A) the British turned to a naval strategy in the French and Indian War.
B) George Washington was left without a military command.
C) the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack.
D) General Braddock was forced to leave the military.
E) the British called off their planned invasion of Canada.

Question 63

With the end of the French and Indian War,the disunity,jealousy,and suspicion that had long existed among the American colonies

A) was sharply expanded.
B) began to melt somewhat.
C) finally came to a complete end.
D) resulted in the creation of separate state militias.
E) led the British to impose a restriction on westward movement.

Question 64

Which of the following was evident from Braddock´s defeat at Fort Duquesne?

A) British adoption of guerrilla tactics was far more thorough and advanced than the French.
B) Indian allies were virtually useless to the French.
C) The Protestant work ethic shared by the British regulars and colonial militiamen nearly enabled them to defeat the larger French force.
D) Continental military tactics and heavy artillery were of limited use in the North American wilderness.
E) Spanish support troops were of vital importance to the French.

Question 65

Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

A) it did not provide for the common defense.
B) the British approved it.
C) it did not seem to give enough independence to the colonies.
D) the larger colonies felt that they should have greater representation.
E) it placed too much power in the hands of local governments.

Question 66

How did British officers´ attitudes toward American militiamen during the French and Indian War shape postwar relations between the colonies and Britain?

A) Colonial militiamen, impressed with the seeming invincibility of the British regulars, encouraged fellow colonists to be more deferential to British authority.
B) British officers roundly praised the skillful fighting ability of colonial troops, encouraging warmer relations between colonists and the British authorities.
C) British officers were distressed by the militiamen´s closeness with the Indians, leaving a lasting residue of mutual suspicion.
D) The colonists took British officers´ criticisms to heart and lost confidence in their own military capability, delaying an armed movement for colonial independence.
E) The contemptuous and snobbery of British officers towards the colonial "amateurs" rankled America´s militia forces, inspiring ill feelings among the colonists towards the British after the war.

Question 67

What name was the French and Indian War given in Europe?

A) The War of Jenkins's Ear
B) The Seven Years' War
C) The War of Austrian Succession
D) King William's War
E) Queen Anne's War

Question 68

The Battle of Québec in 1759

A) had little impact on the French and Indian War.
B) was a key turning point in Queen Anne's War.
C) was a dramatic victory for the French.
D) was the last battle of the French and Indian War.
E) ranks as one of the most significant victories in British and American history.

Question 69

Why did France seek to control the Ohio Valley?

A) To stop Spain from extending its empire
B) To secure the territory of its Huron Indian allies
C) To stop British and colonial American attacks on its trading posts
D) To link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley
E) To expand the area of its fur trade

Question 70

As a result of the French and Indian War,Great Britain

A) gained control of Louisiana and Mexico.
B) became the dominant power in North America.
C) annexed the island of Cuba.
D) gained exclusive control of the slave trade.
E) drove the French settlers from Québec to Louisiana.

Question 71

Unlike any of the first three Anglo-French wars,the French and Indian War

A) won territorial concessions from France.
B) united British colonists in strong support of the mother country.
C) began on the North American continent.
D) found the Indians fighting largely on the British and American side.
E) resulted in a stronger French presence in North America.

Question 72

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

A) achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French.
B) propose independence of the colonies from Britain.
C) declare war on the Iroquois tribes.
D) prohibit New England and New York from trading with the French West Indies.
E) make a separate peace with France.

Question 73

For the American colonies,the French and Indian War

A) ended the myth of British invincibility.
B) left them in need of experienced officers.
C) earned them new freedoms from the grateful authorities.
D) gave them the opportunity finally to gain control of Mississippi.
E) created a greater reliance on British military protection against the Indians.

Question 74

Which of the following resulted from the peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War?

A) France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North America.
B) Britain handed Florida over to Spain.
C) Spain ceded all of Louisiana, including New Orleans, to Britain.
D) France lost all its valuable sugar islands in the West Indies.
E) The British agreed to remove their fortresses from North America.

Question 75

Which of the following distinguished the French and Indian War from the three preceding wars involving Anglo-French conflict in North America?

A) It became the most far-flung conflict the world had ever seen, with fighting on several continents.
B) It involved the Spanish for the first time.
C) It destroyed the sense of unity among the British colonies that the earlier wars had created.
D) It involved Indian allies for the first time.
E) Unlike the earlier wars, it started in Europe and then spread to North America.

Question 76

Who was the military leader in the first battle of what became the French and Indian War?

A) Edward Braddock
B) George Washington
C) William Pitt
D) James Wolfe
E) Robert La Salle
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Question 77

Why did Britain seek to control the Ohio Valley?

A) To continue its expansion west and block French land-grabbing and influence
B) To ensure defeat of the French in the War of Jenkins´s Ear
C) To halt the growth of Spanish colonization in North America
D) To secure the Mississippi River and continue pushing further south to control all of Mexico
E) To link their Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley

Question 78

France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when

A) the settlers in Québec demanded independence.
B) farming proved to be unprofitable.
C) King Louis XIV died.
D) it was defeated and driven off the continent in 1763.
E) it could not entice enough settlers to America.

Question 79

The immediate,short-range purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

A) appeal for more British forces to be sent to North America.
B) keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British.
C) prevent the French from attacking American outposts.
D) appoint George Washington to head the colonial militia.
E) attempt to form an alliance with French colonists in Canada.

Question 80

All of the following were main causes of disunity among the thirteen colonies before the French and Indian War EXCEPT

A) vast distances and geographical barriers.
B) boundary disputes.
C) diverse ethnic and religious traditions.
D) resentment of frontier settlers against aristocratic colonists.
E) fierce rivalry over control of the slave trade.