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Chapters 6-8

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Compared with the English colonies in North America, New France was more autocratically governed.
The expansion of New France occurred especially along the paths of North America's interior lakes and rivers.
Colonial Americans were unhappy about the peace treaty of 1748 following the War of Jenkins's Ear because it returned the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France.
The original cause of the French and Indian War was a French attack on George Washington's Virginia headquarters.
The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as the Seven Years' War.
Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted in a permanent cooperative organization of the colonies. rejection of the congress's proposal for colonial home rule both by London and by the individual colonies.
The British forces suffered crushing early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command of General Braddock.
The fundamental flaw in British strategy before William Pitt gained control of the London government was it tried to attack numerous French wilderness forts simultaneously, instead of concentrating on the key French fortresses.
The decisive event in the French-British contest for North America was the British victory in the Battle of Quebec.
Among the factors that tended to promote British colonists' intercolonial unity during the French and Indian War was their common language and shared wartime experience.
The French and Indian War weakened interior Indian peoples like the Iroquois and Creeks by removing their French and Spanish allies from Canada and Florida.
Perhaps the most enduring result of France's years of colonial rule in North America was a permanent French-Canadian minority in Quebec in Canada.
The British Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory.
The French and Indian War created conflict between the British and the American military because British officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt.
The most significant effect on the colonists of the French defeat in North America was to reduce the colonies' reliance on Britain for protection and increase their sense of independence.
The British theory of mercantilism, by which the colonies were governed, held that the colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the home country's needs.
One of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy was by taxing colonial goods at a higher rate than the same goods produced in Britain.
The mobilization of nonimportation policies against the Stamp Act was politically important because it aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women.
When British officials decided to enforce the East India Company's tea monopoly and the three-pence tax on tea, colonists were outraged because their favorite beverage would cost more than ever before.
The most intolerable of the Intolerable Acts that the British imposed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party were closing the port of Boston and the Quartering Act lodging British soldiers in private homes.
American colonists especially resented the Townshend Acts because the revenues from the taxation would go to support British offcials and judges in America.
The passage of the Quebec Act aroused intense American fears because it extended Catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the English-speaking Ohio country.
The most important action the First Continental Congress took to protest the Intolerable Acts was forming the Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods.
The event that precipitated the first real shooting between the British army and American colonists was the British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord.
The British parliamentary government at the time of the American Revolution was headed by Lord North
At the time of the American Revolution, the population of Britain was approximately five times larger
The British political party that was generally more sympathetic to the American cause was the Whig Party.
One of the advantages the British enjoyed in the impending conflict with the colonies was the ability to enlist foreign soldiers, Loyalists, and Native Americans in their military forces.
One of the advantages the colonists enjoyed in the impending conflict with Britain was a well-organized and effective political leadership.
In the Revolutionary War, African Americans fought in both the American patriot and British loyalist military forces.
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