UNIT 4-6

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Which of the following best explains a result of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)?

A. France sold the Louisiana Territory to GB.

B. GB gained a claim to land extending to the Mississippi River.

C. GB and Spain established an alliance.

D. British influence over its North American colonies decreased.

B

GB's victory in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) had which of the following economic consequences for its American colonies?

A. The British government granted certain American colonists a monopoly on the fur trade without French competition.

B. The British gov. paid for the construction of canals to encourage trade between the Great Lakes region and the East Coast.

C. The British gov. increased taxation of colonial goods to help pay off the debt created by the war.

D. The British gov. forced American merchants to supply the British Royal Navy without payment.

C

The conclusion of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) had which of the following effects on Native American societies?

A. Native Americans allied with GB gained the right to become British citizens, angering the colonists.

B. British and French officials agreed to force Native Americans to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River.

C. Native Americans gained control of all the western fur trade with British colonists.

D. The British gov. attempted to restrict western settlement to reduce tensions between colonists and Native Americans.

D

In James Otis' "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and proved" 1764 pamphlet, Otis was responding to which of the following developments (he said it's our duty to obey Parliament)?

A. The publication of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."

B. The threat of French invasion of British North America.

C. The introduction of widespread boycotts against imported British goods.

D. The British gov.'s attempts to pay for the costs of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War).

D

Which of the following was a major purpose of Otis' pamphlet?

A. To recruit foreign allies to support the claims of the colonists against GB.

B. To encourage opposition to Parliament's regulation of colonial commerce

C. To propose a plan to send colonial delegates to sit in Parliament

D. To advocate for colonial independence from Great Britain

B

By the 1770s, to which of the following groups would Otis' argument that the colonies "must obey" Parliament most appeal?

A. Farmers in the New England colonies

B. Loyalists in New York

C. Enslaved people in the southern colonies

D. Artisans in port cities

B

The ideas in the excerpt (John Locke's Two Treatises of Government) were most likely interpreted by American colonists in the 1770s as a call to reject which of the following?

A. The holding of private property

B. The establishment of representative democracy

C. The acceptance of the divine right of kings

D. The creation of political parties

C

During the period of the American Revolution, Locke's point of view in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting a form of government based on...

A. natural rights

B. military rule

C. hereditary privilege

D. religious beliefs

A

Interpretations of Locke's assertions regarding a "state of freedom" and a "state also of equality" most directly influenced which of the following?

A. The grievances of American colonists during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

B. The political rhetoric of Patriots during the American Revolution

C. The end of American involvement in the international slave trade

D. The demands by colonists to settle beyond the current frontier boundaries

B

The excerpt from Locke's Two Treatises of Government could best be used as evidence by historians studying which of the following topics?

A. The impact of the Enlightenment on Revolutionary political thought

B. The use of Revolutionary pamphlets to mobilize colonial resistance to British policies

C. The attempts by African Americans to seek freedom during the American Revolution

D. The influence of the American Revolution on ideas about republicanism overseas

A

The first paragraph of the excerpt (blacks like all men have natural and inalienable rights) makes the claim that

A. slavery should encourage religious conversion to Christianity

B. concepts of independence should apply only to White men

C. all people should have the same inherent liberties

D. the ideals of the American Revolution should also apply to other nations

C

The second paragraph of the excerpt proposes that the Massachusetts legislature (that gives rights to all men) should