ACE Practice Test Assessment
Chapter 6: The Duel for
1. French colonization was late developing
because of internal religious and political conflict.
A. True B. False
2. The French empire in
A. True B. False
3. Early imperial conflicts in
A. True B. False
4. Colonists in British North America managed
to avoid direct involvement in most of
A. True B. False
5. In the early seventeenth century, both
A. True B. False
6. George Washington's battle at
A. True B. False
7. The
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
A. True B. False
9. British regular troops under General
Braddock succeeded in capturing the key French forts in the
A. True B. False
10. The French and Indian War left
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
A. True B. False
15. The British government's attempt to
prohibit colonial expansion across the
A. True B. False
16. Compared with the English colonies,
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
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
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
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
B. British removal of the “Acadian” French settlers from
C. competition between French and English
colonists for land in the
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
A. a permanent cooperative organization of
the colonies.
B. rejection of the congress's proposal for
colonial home rule both by
C. a sharp increase in Indian attacks on colonial settlements.
D. a growing colonial sympathy with
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
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
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
A. the British capture of
B. the British victory in the
C. the American capture of the Louisbourg fortress.
D. the British attack on the
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
D. removing their French and Spanish allies
from
27.
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
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
A. to increase their gratitude to
B. to create new threats to colonial
expansion from
C. to reduce the colonies' reliance on
D. to focus colonial energies on trade.