Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Write your definition of world war. Then use this definition to argue that the Seven Years' War was or was not a world war.

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Question 2

​Although the fur business in New France was a lucrative government-supported industry in the 1680s and 1690s, its importance to the French government paled in comparison to

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A)  supporting ​the production of sugar and rum in the French Caribbean colonies.
B)  supporting the Indian salvation work of Jesuit missionaries in New France.
C)  ensuring French Huguenots could safely migrate to New France for religious reasons.
D)  allying France with Spain against Great Britain in the emerging imperial competition in North America.
E)  None of these choices are correct.

Question 3

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

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The Albany Congress was a meeting of rep...

Question 4

Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

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A)  promoted the idea that America, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would be cut apart and die.
B)  promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die.
C)  argued that the British would cut apart the French (like the snake)  once the Albany Plan was accepted.
D)  implied that the French was like the snake, waiting to be cut apart by the Albany Plan.
E)  promoted the idea that the French, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would join forces with the British and be united, unlike the disjointed snake.

Question 5

The reason Britain needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

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

Question 6

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
Great Britain, France, and Spain Clash for Supremacy in North America, 1689-1763

-____ Great Lakes

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Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-To what extent did the Seven Years' War help set the political and economic stage for the American Revolutionary War? Explain and justify your answer.

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Question 8

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

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A)  its fishing industry faltered.
B)  farming proved to be unprofitable.
C)  King Louis XIV died.
D)  it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763.
E)  it could not entice enough settlers to America.

Question 9

With the British and American victory in the Seven Years' War

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A)  the American colonies grew closer to Britain.
B)  Americans now feared the Spanish.
C)  a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat disappeared.
D)  the Indians were stopped from ever again launching a deadly attack against whites.
E)  the British no longer retaliated against the Indians.

Question 10

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
Great Britain, France, and Spain Clash for Supremacy in North America, 1689-1763

-____ Louisiana

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Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Jesuits

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Question 12

The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War

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A)  was initially hampered significantly by poor strategic decision making by Britain's war leaders.
B)  concentrated on Quebec and Montreal.
C)  was prompted, in part, by the fact that in 1756 the undeclared war in America had merged into a world conflict.
D)  was an immediate and universally successful military operation.
E)  resulted in British control of the St.Lawrence River.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-voyageurs

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Voyageurs were French-Canadian fur trade...

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of protracted armed conflict between the French and British in America?

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The Ohio Valley became the arena of prot...

Question 15

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War

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A)  France surrendered to Great Britain all of its territorial claims to North America.
B)  England turned 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 got all of Canada except Nova Scotia.

Question 16

​In responding to Chief Pontiac's uprising of allied western Indian tribes, the British

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A)  engaged in a form of biological warfare against Pontiac and his allies.
B)  were reluctant to engage in harsh, suppressive tactics that would alienate Pontiac and his Indian allies.
C)  vacillated between harshly coercive tactics and offering generous terms to accommodate the demands of Pontiac and his allies.
D)  downplayed the need to stabilize relations with western Indian tribes.
E)  failed to appreciate the long-term need to keep regular troops along an increasing restless and dangerous frontier.

Question 17

The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to

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A)  request the help of the British military.
B)  keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British.
C)  prevent the French from attacking American outposts.
D)  support George Washington's desire to head the colonial militia.
E)  block British efforts to take control of New York City.

Question 18

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

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Question 19

With the military defeat of Chief Pontiac and his western Indian alliance, the British decided to

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A)  stabilize Indian-white relations.
B)  let the colonists assume financial responsibility for defending themselves.
C)  remove troops stationed in the colonies.
D)  enlist the aid of France to halt the Indian menace.
E)  open land west of the Appalachian mountains to settlement.

Question 20

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

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A)  functioned as a unified fighting force.
B)  received more support from France than Britain.
C)  demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.
D)  were not involved in combat.
E)  rarely involved Indians in the fighting.

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

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Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Great Britain, France, and Spain Clash for Supremacy in North America, 1689-1763 -____ Louisiana

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Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Great Britain, France, and Spain Clash for Supremacy in North America, 1689-1763 -____ Great Lakes

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -voyageurs

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

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jesuits

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

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