1807NRS EOT EXAMINATION TEST Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The French and Indian War was a part of a much larger conflict called?
Answer: The 7 Years War
Question 2: Cause of the French and Indian War
Answer: England and France both wanted to control the Ohio River Valley
Question 3: Fort Duquesne
Answer: French fort that was the site of the first major battle of the French and Indian War. Americans lost.
Question 4: What is the Albany Congress?
Answer: British colonials who gathered to create a more organized response to the French. Indians were
involved but were ignored.
Question 5: Albany Plan of Union
Answer: plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military,
and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown
Question 6: Why is the Albany plan of union important?
Answer: It set ground for later gatherings such as the ones during the Revolutionary war.
Question 7: How did the French and Indian war end?
Answer: Treaty of Paris 1763
Question 8: What resulted in the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Answer: - Spain gave Florida to the British -French were basically out of NA -Lands west of MR were
Spanish -Lands east of MR were British (Ohio River Valley)
Question 9: Effects of the French and Indian War
Answer: - Westward Expansion -Unfriendly relationship with Indians -EXPENSIVE
Question 10: What is the Proclamation line of 1763?
Answer: King George III declared an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that the American
colonists were not supposed to move past in order to not upset the Indians.
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,Question 11: Pontiac's Rebellion
Answer: 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac.
They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area.
The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.
Question 12: In order to pay for the debt from the French and Indian war, what did the British do?
Answer: Raised the colonies taxes
Question 13: What is Salutary neglect?
Answer: The British policy of relaxed rule towards colonial governments so long as they remained loyal
Question 14: What were the Navigation Acts?
Answer: A series of laws which restricted foreign shipping.
Question 15: How does salutary neglect relate to the Navigation Acts?
Answer: The colonists did not really follow the navigation acts, and the British were practicing salutary
neglect.
Question 16: Grenville's Program
Answer: As Prime Minister, he passed the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765 to help finance the
cost of maintaining a standing force of British troops in the colonies. He believed in reducing the financial
burden on the British by enacting new taxes in the colonies. The currency act too.
Question 17: Reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct
representatives in Parliament
Answer: No Taxation without Representation
Question 18: What were the Sons of Liberty?
Answer: Secret societies of colonists formed to protest British policies
Question 19: What was the Stamp Act Congress?
Answer: Convention in New York of many colonies attempting to get the King to stop the Stamp Act.
Stated that they were loyal subjects to the King.
Question 20: What act was passed when the stamp and sugar were repealed?
Answer: Declaratory Act
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,Question 21: Declaratory Act (1766)
Answer: Declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" & that the
colonists possessed virtual representation.
Question 22: What act really set off the colonists?
Answer: Townshend Act
Question 23: Townshend Act
Answer: A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
Question 24: What was the Boston Massacre (1770)?
Answer: The killing of 5 civilians by British troops which helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
Question 25: What was the Boston Tea Party (1773)?
Answer: Sons of Liberty protesting the tax on Tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor
Question 26: What did the British do in response to the BTP?
Answer: Coercive Acts
Question 27: Coercive Acts
Answer: This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its
resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea.
Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes.
Question 28: What are the Intolerable Acts?
Answer: series of laws, aka in Britain as the Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and restrict
resistance in other colonies; 1) Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for 2) Massachusetts was put under
military rule 3) British soldiers tried for murder in England not in the colonies 4) more troops were to be
sent to Boston
Question 29: First Continental Congress (1774)
Answer: Convention of delegates from the colonies called in to discuss their response to the passage of the
Intolerable Acts.
Question 30: Where did the colonists learn their ideals from?
Answer: The Enlightenment
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, Question 31: John Locke
Answer: English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights "Consent of the governed"
Question 32: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer: "Social Contract" give up rights to be protected by the government.
Question 33: Montesquieu
Answer: separation of powers "Spirit of Laws"
Question 34: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Answer: Pamphlet that encouraged the Colonists to fight the British. Reached majority of the population.
Question 35: Second Continental Congress (1775)
Answer: They organized the continental Army, called on the colonies to send troops, selected George
Washington to lead the army, and appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence
Question 36: The Continental Army suffered the 1st 6 months
Answer: True
Question 37: What was Washington's plan to winning the war?
Answer: Keep the war going until the British get tired and give up.
Question 38: Battle of Saratoga (1777)
Answer: Decisive colonial victory in upstate New York; considered to be the turning point of the American
Revolution. *Historical Significance:* Caused France to openly support the colonies with military forces in
addition to the supplies and money already being sent.
Question 39: Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Answer: Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the
Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army.
He surrendered October 19, 1781.
Question 40: How did the American Revolution end?
Answer: Treaty of Paris (1783)
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The French and Indian War was a part of a much larger conflict called?
Answer: The 7 Years War
Question 2: Cause of the French and Indian War
Answer: England and France both wanted to control the Ohio River Valley
Question 3: Fort Duquesne
Answer: French fort that was the site of the first major battle of the French and Indian War. Americans lost.
Question 4: What is the Albany Congress?
Answer: British colonials who gathered to create a more organized response to the French. Indians were
involved but were ignored.
Question 5: Albany Plan of Union
Answer: plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military,
and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown
Question 6: Why is the Albany plan of union important?
Answer: It set ground for later gatherings such as the ones during the Revolutionary war.
Question 7: How did the French and Indian war end?
Answer: Treaty of Paris 1763
Question 8: What resulted in the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Answer: - Spain gave Florida to the British -French were basically out of NA -Lands west of MR were
Spanish -Lands east of MR were British (Ohio River Valley)
Question 9: Effects of the French and Indian War
Answer: - Westward Expansion -Unfriendly relationship with Indians -EXPENSIVE
Question 10: What is the Proclamation line of 1763?
Answer: King George III declared an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that the American
colonists were not supposed to move past in order to not upset the Indians.
Page 1
,Question 11: Pontiac's Rebellion
Answer: 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac.
They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area.
The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.
Question 12: In order to pay for the debt from the French and Indian war, what did the British do?
Answer: Raised the colonies taxes
Question 13: What is Salutary neglect?
Answer: The British policy of relaxed rule towards colonial governments so long as they remained loyal
Question 14: What were the Navigation Acts?
Answer: A series of laws which restricted foreign shipping.
Question 15: How does salutary neglect relate to the Navigation Acts?
Answer: The colonists did not really follow the navigation acts, and the British were practicing salutary
neglect.
Question 16: Grenville's Program
Answer: As Prime Minister, he passed the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765 to help finance the
cost of maintaining a standing force of British troops in the colonies. He believed in reducing the financial
burden on the British by enacting new taxes in the colonies. The currency act too.
Question 17: Reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct
representatives in Parliament
Answer: No Taxation without Representation
Question 18: What were the Sons of Liberty?
Answer: Secret societies of colonists formed to protest British policies
Question 19: What was the Stamp Act Congress?
Answer: Convention in New York of many colonies attempting to get the King to stop the Stamp Act.
Stated that they were loyal subjects to the King.
Question 20: What act was passed when the stamp and sugar were repealed?
Answer: Declaratory Act
Page 2
,Question 21: Declaratory Act (1766)
Answer: Declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" & that the
colonists possessed virtual representation.
Question 22: What act really set off the colonists?
Answer: Townshend Act
Question 23: Townshend Act
Answer: A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
Question 24: What was the Boston Massacre (1770)?
Answer: The killing of 5 civilians by British troops which helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
Question 25: What was the Boston Tea Party (1773)?
Answer: Sons of Liberty protesting the tax on Tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor
Question 26: What did the British do in response to the BTP?
Answer: Coercive Acts
Question 27: Coercive Acts
Answer: This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its
resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea.
Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes.
Question 28: What are the Intolerable Acts?
Answer: series of laws, aka in Britain as the Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and restrict
resistance in other colonies; 1) Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for 2) Massachusetts was put under
military rule 3) British soldiers tried for murder in England not in the colonies 4) more troops were to be
sent to Boston
Question 29: First Continental Congress (1774)
Answer: Convention of delegates from the colonies called in to discuss their response to the passage of the
Intolerable Acts.
Question 30: Where did the colonists learn their ideals from?
Answer: The Enlightenment
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, Question 31: John Locke
Answer: English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights "Consent of the governed"
Question 32: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer: "Social Contract" give up rights to be protected by the government.
Question 33: Montesquieu
Answer: separation of powers "Spirit of Laws"
Question 34: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Answer: Pamphlet that encouraged the Colonists to fight the British. Reached majority of the population.
Question 35: Second Continental Congress (1775)
Answer: They organized the continental Army, called on the colonies to send troops, selected George
Washington to lead the army, and appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence
Question 36: The Continental Army suffered the 1st 6 months
Answer: True
Question 37: What was Washington's plan to winning the war?
Answer: Keep the war going until the British get tired and give up.
Question 38: Battle of Saratoga (1777)
Answer: Decisive colonial victory in upstate New York; considered to be the turning point of the American
Revolution. *Historical Significance:* Caused France to openly support the colonies with military forces in
addition to the supplies and money already being sent.
Question 39: Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Answer: Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the
Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army.
He surrendered October 19, 1781.
Question 40: How did the American Revolution end?
Answer: Treaty of Paris (1783)
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