ACE Practice Test Assessment

Chapter 6: The Duel for North America

 

1.      French colonization was late developing because of internal religious and political conflict.

A. True      B. False

 

2.      The French empire in North America rested on an economic foundation of forestry and sugar production.

A. True      B. False

 

3.      Early imperial conflicts in North America often saw the French and their Indian allies engaging in guerrilla warfare against British frontier outposts.

A. True      B. False

 

4.      Colonists in British North America managed to avoid direct involvement in most of Britain's "world wars" until the French and Indian War.

A. True      B. False

 

5.      In the early seventeenth century, both France and England committed large regular forces to what they considered the crucial struggle for control of North America.

A. True      B. False

 

6.      George Washington's battle at Fort Necessity substantially resolved the issue of control of the Ohio Valley.

A. True      B. False

 

7.      The Albany Congress demonstrated a strong desire among some English colonists to overcome their differences and control their own affairs.

A. True      B. False

 

8.      William Pitt's successful strategy in the French and Indian War was to concentrate British forces and try to capture the strongholds of Louisbourg, Quebec, and Montreal.

A. True      B. False

 

9.      British regular troops under General Braddock succeeded in capturing the key French forts in the Ohio Valley.

A. True      B. False

 

10.  The French and Indian War left France with only Louisiana as a remnant of its once-mighty North American empire.

A. True      B. False

 

11.  American soldiers gained new respect for British military men after the British success against the French.

A. True      B. False

 

12.  The American colonists enthusiastically united in patriotic support of the British cause against the French.

A. True      B. False

 

13.  The removal of the French threat made American colonists more secure and therefore less reliant on the mother country for protection.

A. True      B. False

 

14.  A British commander used the harsh tactics of distributing blankets infected with smallpox to suppress Pontiac's Indian uprising.

A. True      B. False

 

15.  The British government's attempt to prohibit colonial expansion across the Appalachian Mountains aroused colonial anger and defiance of the law.

A. True      B. False

 

16.  Compared with the English colonies, New France was

A. more wealthy and successful.

B. better able to maintain consistently friendly relations with the Indians.

C. more heavily populated

D. more autocratically governed.

 

17.  The expansion of New France occurred especially

A. in the interior mountain areas.

B. along the paths of lakes and rivers.

C. in areas already occupied by English settlers.

D. to the north of the original St. Lawrence River settlement.

 

18.  Colonial Americans were unhappy after the peace treaty following the "War of Jenkins's Ear" because

A. it failed to settle the issue that had caused the war.

B. it gave the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France.

C. it created further conflicts with Spain.

D. it failed to deal with the issue of Indian attacks on the frontier.

 

19.  The original cause of the French and Indian War was

A. conflict in Europe between Britain and France.

B. British removal of the “Acadian” French settlers from Nova Scotia.

C. competition between French and English colonists for land in the Ohio River valley.

D. a French attack on George Washington’s Virginia headquarters.

 

20.  The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as

A. the Seven Years' War.

B. the War of Jenkins’s Ear.

C. the War of the Austrian Succsesion.

D. King George’s War.

 

21.  Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted in

A. a permanent cooperative organization of the colonies.

B. rejection of the congress's proposal for colonial home rule both by London and by the individual colonies.

C. a sharp increase in Indian attacks on colonial settlements.

D. a growing colonial sympathy with France in the war against Britain.

 

22.  The British forces suffered early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command of

A. General Braddock.

B. General Washington.

C. General Wolfe.

D. General Montcalm.

 

23.  William Pitt's strategy in the assault on New France finally succeeded because

A. he was able to arouse more support for the war effort from the colonists.

B. he gave full support to General Braddock as commander of the British forces.

C. he concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal.

D. he was able to gain the support of the British aristocracy for the war effort.

 

24.  The decisive event in the French-British contest for North America was

A. the British capture of Fort Duquesne.

B. the British victory in the Battle of Quebec.

C. the American capture of the Louisbourg fortress.

D. the British attack on the West Indies.

 

25.  Among the factors that tended to promote intercolonial unity during the French and Indian War was

A. religious unity.

B. common language and wartime experience.

C. ethnic and social harmony.

D. improved transportation and settlement of boundary disputes.                     

 

26.  The French and Indian War weakened interior Indian peoples like the Iroquois and Creeks by

A. establishing new American settlements on their territory.

B. eliminating their most effective leaders.

C. ending their hopes for diplomatic recognition in Europe.

D. removing their French and Spanish allies from Canada and Florida.                       

 

27.  Pontiac's fierce attack on frontier outposts in 1763 had the effect of

A. ending good American-Indian relations on the frontier.

B. reviving French hopes for a new war.

C. convincing the British to keep troops stationed in the colonies.

D. stopping the flow of westward settlement.

 

28.  The British Proclamation of 1763

A. was welcomed by most American colonists.

B. angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory.

C. was aimed at further suppressing the French population of Canada.

D. halted American westward settlement for several years.       

 

29.  The French and Indian War created conflict between the British and the American military because

A. the American soldiers had failed to support the British military effort.

B. the British regulars had carried the brunt of the fighting.

C. British officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt.

D. American soldiers refused to accept orders from British officers.

 

30.  The effect on the colonists of the French removal from North America was

A. to increase their gratitude to Britain for defending them in the war.

B. to create new threats to colonial expansion from Spain and the Indians.

C. to reduce the colonies' reliance on Britain and increase their sense of independence.

D. to focus colonial energies on trade.