AP US 1
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Compared with the English colonies, New France (Louisiana) was | more autocratically governed
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The expansion of New France occurred especially | along the paths of lakes and rivers
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Colonial Americans were unhappy after the peace treaty following the "War of Jenkins's Ear" because | it gave the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France
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The original cause of the French and Indian war was | competition between French and English colonists for land in the Ohio River valley
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The French and Indian war eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as | the Seven Years' War
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Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create inter-colonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted in | rejection of the congress's proposal for colonial home rule both by London and by the individual colonies
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The British forces suffered early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command of | General Braddock
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William Pitt's strategy in the assault on New France finally succeeded because | he concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal
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Among the factors that tended to promote intercolonial unity during the French and Indian war was | common language and wartime experience
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The French and Indian war weakened interior Indian peoples like the Iroquois and creeks by | removing their French and Spanish allies from Canada and Florida
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Pontiac's fierce attack on frontier outposts in 1763 had the effect of | convincing the British to keep troops stationed in the colonies
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The British Proclamation of 1763 | angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory
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The french and indian war created conflict between the british and american military because | british officers treated the american colonial militia with contempt
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the effect on the colonsits of the french removal from north america was | to reduce the colonies' reliance on britain and increase their sense of independence
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During the period of fighting between april 1775 and july 1776, the colonists claimed that their goal was | to restore their rights within the British empire
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George washington proved to be an especially effective commander of american forces in the revolution because | of his integrity, courage, and moral forcefulness
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the bold american military strategy that narrowly failed in december 1775 involved | a two-pronged attack on british forces in new jersey
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many of the german hessian soldiers hired by king george III to fight for the british | had little loyalty to the british cause and ended up deserting
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thomas paine's appeal for a new republican form of government attracted many americans because | their own experience with local and colonial democratic governance had prepared them for the idea
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Paine's COMMON SENSE was crucial in convincing many americans that what they should fight for was | an independent and republican america separate from britain
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the loyalists were particularly strong among | conservative and well-off americans
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besides george washington, the most militarily effective american officer in the early campaigns of 1776 and 1777 was | General Benedict Arnold
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the battle of saratoga was a key turning point of the war for independence because | it brought about crucial french assistance to the Revolutionary cause
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the primary reason that americans were willing to enter a military and diplomatic alliance with Frnace in 1778 was | the practical self-interest of needing assistance to defeat the british
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the british especially relied on the numerous loyalists to aid them in fighting the patriots | in the carolinas
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Most of the six nations of the iroquois under joseph brant fought against the american revolutionaries because | they believed that a victorious britain would contain westward american expansion
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the british defeat at yorktown was brought about by george washingtons army and | the french navy under admiral de Grasse
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In the peace negotiations at Paris, the french wanted the americans | to acquire only the territory east of the Appalachian mountains
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the british yielded the americans a generous peace treaty that included the western territories primarily because of | the desire of the weak whig ministry in london for friendly future relations with the US
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the british theory of mercantilism, by which the colonies were governed, held that | the colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the mother country's needs
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one of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy was | by inhibiting the development of banking and paper currency in the colonies
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the mobilization of "non-importation" policies against the stamp act was politically important because | it aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary american men and women
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when British officials decided to enforce the east india company's tea monopoly and the three-pence tax on tea, | colonists were outraged because they saw it as a trick to undermine their principled resistance to the tax
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The british reacted to the boston tea party by | closing the port of boston until damages were paid and order restored
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american colonists especially resented the townshend acts because | the revenues from the taxation would go to support british officials and judges in america
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the most important action the continental congress look to protest the intolerable acts was | forming the association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods
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the passage of the quebec act aroused intense american fears because | it extended catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the western ohio country
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the event that precipitated the first real shooting between the british and american colonists was | the british attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and concord
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the british parliamentary government at the time of the american revolution was headed by | Lord North
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the american rebellion was especially dangerous to the british because they were also worried about | possible revolts in ireland and war with france
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the british political party that was generally more sympathetic to the american cause was | the Whig party
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one of the advantages the british enjoyed in the impending conflict with the colonies was | the ability to enlist foreign soldiers, loyalists, and native americans in their military forces
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one of the advantages the colonists enjoyed in the impending conflict with Britain was | fighting defensively on a large, agriculturally self-sufficient continent
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