Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the Seven Years’ War also called?

Answer 1

French Indian War

Question 2

What were the causes of the Seven Year’s War?

Answer 2

Great Britain prohibited western settlements

Question 3

Why did the British Prohibit western settlements?

Answer 3

• Natives already lived there
• French already owned the land

Question 4

What caused Washington to start a fight, leading to the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 4

He warned the French to go away when they built ports at the Ohio river valley but was ignored.

Question 5

What was the Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 5

Proposed the colonists to unite, but rejected by colonies and Britain because both felt they lacked power

Question 6

What happened in the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 6

• British won with Colonial help
• France ceded Canada and west of Mississippi
• Spain ceded Florida to Britain
• Britain gained a lot of debt

Question 7

Why did Pontiac’s Rebellion happen?

Answer 7

Colonists wanted to migrate to Ohio but Britain restricted their ability to

Question 8

What did Pontiac do?

Answer 8

Assembled Ottawa, Padawati, and Huron leaders and attacked colonists who attacked back

Question 9

Why were the British angry at Colonists during Pontiac’s Rebellion?

Answer 9

The British could not tell who the allies and enemies of the Colonists were.

Question 10

What was the Royal Proclamation of 1763? How did colonists respond to this?

Answer 10

• Forbade British colonists from migrating west beyond Appalachian Mountains
• Angered colonists who wanted to expand
• Colonists just did as liked

Question 11

Who were the Paxton boys? What did they want?

Answer 11

• Scots-irish frontiersmen in Pennsylvania
• Wanted tax relief from being attacked by natives

Question 12

What did the Paxton boys do in response to Native ambushes?

Answer 12

• Massacred innocent natives
• Were not prosecuted

Question 13

What was the Zenger Case? What was the outcome?

Answer 13

• Zenger was accused of falsely criticizing the royal governor
• Found not guilty
• Precedent for freedom of speech

Question 14

What is republicanism?

Answer 14

• people give power to leaders they elect represent them and serve their interests
• Citizens resist gov corruption and promote civic virtue

Question 15

What is civic virtue?

Answer 15

the moral qualities and habits that promote the common good and the effective functioning of a society

Question 16

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 16

• Lowered taxes on molasses
• Eliminated illegal sugar trade between continental colonies, France, and Indians

Question 17

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 17

• Imposed taxes on printed documents (newspapers, legal docs, etc)
• Direct tax on colonists
• Affected almost all social classes

Question 18

What is visual representation?

Answer 18

The idea that members of Parliament represented the interests of all British subjects, even if such colonists were not physically present.