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

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