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Question #1
The major participants in the Seven Years’ War in North America were the
A.   colonists, the English, and the Spanish.
B.   Iroquois, the English, and the French.
C.   English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.
D.   French, the colonists, and the Spanish.
E.   French, the Spanish, and the English.
Question #2
The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713
A.   slowed England’s western expansion of its American colonies.
B.   transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean.
C.   transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.
D.   was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.
E.   ended King William’s War.
Question #3
According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763,
A.   England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.
B.   France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.
C.   France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.
D.   France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
E.   France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.
Question #4
The Proclamation of 1763
A.   led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West.
B.   disrupted England’s western trade in the colonies.
C.   was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
D.   was generally effective.
E.   encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.
Question #5
The Stamp Act of 1765
A.   helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.
B.   provided much needed revenue to the American colonies.
C.   actually affected only a few New England merchants.
D.   was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce.
E.   required the consent of the colonial assemblies before going into effect.
Question #6
The Boston Massacre
A.   turned Paul Revere into a martyr for the cause of colonial independence.
B.   resulted in the death of several British soldiers.
C.   was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.
D.   included a trial in which British soldiers were convicted of murder.
E.   led to Paul Revere’s midnight ride of warning.
Question #7
In the eighteenth century, under the English government’s theory of representation,
A.   the king spoke to Parliament on behalf of the American colonies.
B.   each American colony was allowed one non-voting representative in Parliament.
C.   the American colonies had no claim to any political representation.
D.   the American colonies were represented by the courts.
E.   the American colonies were represented in Parliament.
Question #8
The Boston Tea Party of December 1773
A.   shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
B.   frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.
C.   triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
D.   took place in response to Boston’s turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.
E.   took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
Question #9
In 1774, the First Continental Congress
A.   accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority.
B.   issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the king.
C.   proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament’s demand.
D.   called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.
E.   agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.
Question #10
By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies,,
A.   existed only to implement the policies of the English Parliament.
B.   were petitioning the king to charter new colonies to the west.
C.   felt little loyalty to the English government.
D.   had claimed the right to levy taxes.
E.   consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.

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