Chapter 5 Key ID

Q: How did the French and Indian War give colonists military confidence?

A: It gave colonists military experience and showed them that British soldiers were not invincible.

Q: How did the French and Indian War increase colonial unity?

A: Colonists developed a greater sense of unity from facing common challenges.

Q: How did the end of the French and Indian War change colonial attitudes toward Britain?

A: With the French threat gone, colonists felt less need for British military protection.

Q: Why did tensions between British soldiers and colonial soldiers increase?

A: The British looked down on colonial soldiers and questioned their military abilities.

Q: Why did Britain begin seeking money from the colonies after the war?

A: Britain had accumulated a huge war debt and wanted the colonies to help pay it.

Q: What was salutary neglect?

A: A period when Britain did not strictly enforce laws like the Navigation Acts.

Q: What changed after the French and Indian War regarding salutary neglect?

A: Britain began enforcing the Navigation Acts more strictly.

Q: Who led Pontiac’s Rebellion?

A: Pontiac.

Q: Why did Pontiac lead the rebellion?

A: He wanted to push the British out of the Ohio Valley after the French were defeated.

Q: What did Pontiac’s forces accomplish?

A: They killed about 2,000 soldiers and settlers and captured eight British forts.

Q: How did the British respond to Pontiac’s Rebellion?

A: They used military force and smallpox-infected blankets to crush the rebellion.

Q: What did Pontiac’s Rebellion convince the British they needed?

A: Better relations with Native Americans and a large military presence in the colonies.

Q: Who would have to pay for the British military presence?

A: The colonists.

Q: Who were the Paxton Boys?

A: Scots-Irish settlers in Pennsylvania who were involved in violent conflicts with Native Americans.

Q: Why were the Paxton settlers angry with Pennsylvania’s government?

A: They believed colonial leaders were ignoring their requests for protection from Native Americans.

Q: What did a group of Paxton settlers do in response?

A: They killed a group of peaceful Native Americans.

Q: How did the governor respond to the Paxton Boys?

A: He issued warrants for their arrest and offered protection to Christianized Native Americans.

Q: Why did the Paxton Boys march on the capital?

A: They feared the government would side with Native Americans against them.

Q: Who helped arrange a peaceful meeting with the Paxton Boys?

A: Benjamin Franklin and others.

Q: Why was the Paxton Boys conflict significant?

A: It showed growing conflict between wealthy colonial elites in the east and poorer frontier settlers in the west.