Deck 2: The Colonies and Wars for Empire

Question 1

Which impressive fortress guarded the entrance to the St. Lawrence river?

A) Louisbourg
B) Gibraltar
C) New Orleans
D) Fort Duquesne

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who initiated the use of small composite forces composed of European settlers and native allies to launch raids on an opponent?

A) Count de Frontenac
B) Benjamin Church
C) Major Edmund Andros
D) William Phips

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What does the phrase status quo ante bellum mean?

A) All returns to as it was before the conflict.
B) Countries retain lands seized in the conflict.
C) All land acquisition must be paid for at their value before the war.
D) Countries relinquish all islands captured during the conflict.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What was another name for Queen Anne's War?

A) War of the Spanish Succession
B) War of the Austrian Succession
C) King Philip's War
D) Great War for Empire

Question 5

In Queen Anne's War, where did the colonists focus their military effort?

A) Port Royal
B) Louisburg
C) New York
D) St. Augustine

Question 6

The assault on Cartagena was

A) an unmitigated disaster and a demonstration of British military ineptitude.
B) a prime example of a well-planned joint venture between Britain and her colonies.
C) a bold plan that lacked the necessary logistical support for success.
D) a bold plan that could not be executed properly due to the deficiencies in communications attendant in the period.

Question 7

Why did New Englanders feel betrayed by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle?

A) England traded both Cape Breton Island and Louisburg in order to get Madras.
B) England held on to all the hard fought gains of the colonists but heavily taxed the colonists.
C) England kept Cape Breton Island but traded back Louisburg for Madras.
D) England returned all the territories to France to acquire Hanover in Europe.

Question 8

The Great War for Empire was a contest between which two powers for control of North America?

A) Great Britain and France
B) France and Prussia
C) Great Britain and Spain
D) France and Spain

Question 9

Who was the Virginia colonial officer responsible for setting in motion events that led to the Great War for Empire?

A) George Washington
B) Daniel Morgan
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Robert Lee

Question 10

How did the British create their own defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela?

A) Their reconaissance was poor and unfavorable positioning when they engaged the enemy.
B) They carried minimal weapons and too few soldiers into the battle.
C) They refused to see the colonists as equal participants during the fight.
D) They believed that the French had left the region.

Question 11

Who was the British political leader who turned the tide of British military fortunes in North America during the Great War for Empire?

A) William Pitt
B) Lord Dunmore
C) William Shirley
D) Jeffrey Amherst

Question 12

How did William Pitt restore some level of cooperation between the colonies and British forces in North America?

A) He increased food rations and offered additional time for recreation.
B) He offered financial subsidies and granted additional autonomy to the colonies.
C) He promoted colonial officers while demoting many British regulars.
D) He replaced the colonial militia with British troops on dangerous missions.

Question 13

When did the Indians attempt to take advantage of the French defeat and push the British out of the western Great Lakes?

A) Pontiac's Rebellion
B) Metacom's Rebellion
C) Shays' Rebellion
D) Leisler's Rebellion

Question 14

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 passed to prohibit settlement west of the Appalachian mountains?

A) The British attempted to reduce the endemic violence on the North American frontier.
B) The British believed that the Native Americans had a just claim to their own land.
C) The British wanted the colonists to remain as the chief source of labor in the east.
D) The British wanted to segregate their subjects from Spanish.

Question 15

What was the standard infantry weapon of all the European players in the colonial wars?

A) musket
B) rifle
C) saber
D) browning automatic rifle

Question 16

Why was the fur trade a significant factor in colonial wars between Great Britain and France?

Question 17

How did the geography of North America factor into the conduct of the various wars for empire?

Question 18

What factors served to widen King Williams' War into a European conflict?

Question 19

What factors influenced Frontenac to launch a war of raids on the British colonies in North America? Were the tactics he adopted effective? Why or why not? Were they an appropriate response to the overall strategic situation of New France?

Question 20

Why was the use of Native American allies by both sides in the colonial wars inherently flawed?

Question 21

What was the French objective in North America during Queen Anne's War? How did France seek to accomplish this objective?

Question 22

How did native allies affect the strategy used by both sides in Queen Anne's War?

Question 23

What strategic and geographic benefits did the British colonies receive from the Peace of Utrecht? In what ways did the peace fall short of meeting the colonists' goals?

Question 24

How were the strategic objectives of Britain and France similar in King George's War to those of previous imperial wars in North America?

Question 25

What was the French strategic goal in North America? Was there any point in the Great War for Empire when their goals seemed achievable? If so, when and why?