Crisis in the Colonies

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Crisis in the Colonies

Powerpoint Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Using a dictionary, define the word debt. (slide 2)

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2. How did England decide to raise money for their debt? (slide 2)

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3. What was clear in 1775? (slide 2)

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4. What was proclaimed in 1749? (slide 3)

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5. What did King George II summon Christopher Gist to do? (slide 3)

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6. What did land did France claim? (slide 5)

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7. What did the French proclaim? (slide 5)

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8. What did France build to protect their lands? (slide 5)

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9. Why was the Ohio valley so important? (slide 5)

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10. Did the Native Americans want to give up their lands to the European settlers? (slide 6)

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11. Why did France and England want to make Indian allies? (slide 6)

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12. Were the French people fur trappers or farmers? (slide 6)

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13. How did the English people feel about the rights of the Indians?

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14. Why did some of the Indians support the English? (slide 7)

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15. Who walked in the room to meet Captain Joncaire on December 4, 1753? (slide 8)

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16. What was Washington delivering to Captain Joncaire? (slide 8)

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17. Where was England and France fighting in the French and Indian War? (slide 9; hint what were they fighting for?)

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18. Where did Washington grow up? (slide 10)

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19. Why did Washington build a fort? (slide 10)

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20. What did Washington name his fort? (slide 11)

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21. Who forced Washington to surrender at Fort Necessity? (slide 11)

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22. Where did the delegates meet? (slide 12)

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23. Why did the delegates meet in Albany? (slide 13)

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24. Did the Iroquois join the British or French? (slide 13)

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26. Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union? (slide 14)

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27. What person said, “Everyone cries a union is needed, but when they come to the manner and for the Union, their weak noodles are perfectly distracted.” (slide 14)

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28. What advantage did the French people have over the British people? (slide 15)

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29. What colonies ruled the seas? (slide 15)

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30. Who led the British in the attack against fort Duquesne? (slide 16)

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31. Who warned General Braddock that he was moving his troops too slow? (slide 16)

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32. Who became the leader of the British government in 1757? (slide 17)

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33. After the British captured the fort, what did they rename it?

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34. What was the name of the town General James Wolfe captured for the British? (slide 18)

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35. What was General James Wolfe’s bold plan? (slide 18)

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36. The French lost the French and Indian War. They were forced to sign a treaty. What was the name of that treaty the French signed? (slide 19)

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37. What did the British gain under the Treaty of Paris? (slide 19)

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38. What threat did the British wonder about? (slide 20)

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39. What is the name of the valley the British drove the French away from? (slide 21)

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40. Many Native Americans lived in the Ohio Valley in 1762.Who did the British send to keep order in the Ohio Valley? (slide 21)

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41. Who was the leader of the Native Americans that fought the French? (slide 22)

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42. What did the French people inform Pontiac in 1763? (slide 23)

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43. What did the Proclamation of 1763 say? (slide 24)

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44. What was the Sugar Act? (slide 26)

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45. What was the Stamp Act? (slide 26)

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46. What happened when the British tried to enforce the Stamp Act? (slide 26)

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47. What did the colonist claim when they were handed the two new laws? (slide 27)

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48. What did the colonists present to King George III in 1765? (slide 27)

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49. Define the word, boycott. (slide 28)

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50. Define the words, repeal or repealed? (slide 28)

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51. What were the Townshend Acts? (slide 29)

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52. What were the non-importation agreements? (slide 30)

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53. What were the “Sons of Liberty?” (slide 30)

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54. What was the Quartering Act? (slide 33) ____________

55. What caused the Boston Massacre? (slide 34)

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56. How many people died in the Boston Massacre? (slide 34)

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57. King George III agreed to keep a tax on what product after the repeal of the Townshend Acts? (slide 35)

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58. By 1770, how many Americans were drinking tea? (slide 36)

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59. What did the colonists resent? (slide 37)

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60. What was The Tea Act? (slide 37)

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61. What happened in late November 1773? (slide 38)

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62. The British were outraged with the Boston Tea Party. Name 2 ways in which the British striked the colonists back. (slide 39-40)