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

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