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CJ U.S. 1754-1789
U.S. History 1754-1789
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Veteran English politicians who turned the tide of the Seven Years War by focusing the full force of the British Military on the fighting in North America, leaving the European battles to the Prussian army | William Pitt, 1708-1778 |
| Brigadier General James Wolfe's British troops defeated Montcalm's French troops, though not before both leaders died in the five day battle | Battle for Quebec, 1759 |
| Ended the North American fighting in the Seven Years War | French surrender of Montreal, 1760 |
| Ended the French presence in North America, giving the British title to all French territory east of the Mississippi and to Spanish Florida, and giving the Spanish title to all French territory west of the Mississippi | Treaty of Paris, February 1763 |
| Entered the Seven Years War on the side of the French and the Austrians in 1762, the last full year of the war | Spanish involvement in the Seven Years War |
| An Ottawa chief and other interior tribes capture all British outposts west of Pittsburgh before British troops and American militias managed to smother the rebellion | Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763 |
| British order, issued by the Board of Trade, that forbade white settlement west of the crest of the Appalachians, instituted in hope of soothing fears of Native Americans, preventing future rebellions, and keeping colonists in an easy-to-govern area | Proclamation of 1763 |
| First Lord of the British Treasury, who discovered that the taxes on American colonists added up to one-fourth of the salaries of American colonial tax collectors | George Grenville, 1712-1770 |
| Imposed a relative large tax of six pence per gallon of Molasses imported from the French and Dutch sugar islands, intended to encourage colonists to buy British molasses, which was mostly evaded by American colonists, who often bribed customs officers | Molasses Act of 1733 |
| Based on George Grenville's hope that lowering the tax on molasses and enforcing it would produce more revenue for the British, this lowered the tax to three pence per gallon of French and Dutch molasses but tightened customs enforcement | Revenue Act, commonly called the Sugar Act, of 1764 |
| Forbade the colonies from making their paper money legal tender in order to protect British traders | Currency Act of 1764 |
| Obliged colonies where British troops were stationed to provide troops with accommodations | Quartering Act of 1765 |
| Placed taxes on legal documents, customs papers, newspapers, almanacs, college diplomas, playing cards, and dice, where a stamp was used to certify that the tax had been paid, which England had been enforcing at home for nearly 100 years | Stamp Act of 1765 |
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