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

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