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Chapter 6 Section Review Packet
Section 6-1: Trouble on the Frontier
Match the following terms with the correct definition:
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Metacomet_____
Militia_____
Albany Plan of Union_____
French and Indian War_____
Fort Duquesne_____
Fort Necessity_____
Casualties_____
Edward Braddock_____
Treaty of Paris_____
a. Term that refers to civilians serving as
soldiers
b. War between France and Britain and each
sides’ respective Native American allies
c. Fort built by George Washington
d. Treaty that ended the French and Indian War
e. Term that refers to those wounded, killed, or
captured in war
f. British general that commanded troops in
North America during the French and Indian
War
g. Fort built by the French on the Ohio River
h. Plan to unify the colonies by Benjamin
Franklin
i. War known as the Seven Years War in Europe
j. Native American chief that opposed colonists’
efforts to take his people’s land
Thoroughly answer the following questions:
10. (a) What were the relationships between various Europeans and Native Americans based upon? (b)
Why did the native Americans “trust” the French more than the English?
(a)
(b)
11. What were the various wars fought between Britain and France in the late 17th and early 18th
centuries and what was the main purpose of these conflicts (name at least three conflicts during that
time)?
(a)
(b)
(c)
12. (a) Explain Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union. Why did he propose this plan, and which
government did he base it upon? (b) Was his plan accepted or rejected and why?
(a)
(b)
13. Explain the effects of the Treaty of Paris: (a) what countries gained territory in North America, and
which countries lost territory? (b) Which areas changed hands?
(a)
(b)
Section 6-2: Consequence of the French and Indian War
Match the following terms with their definitions:
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Backcountry_____
Pioneers_____
Pontiac’s Rebellion_____
King George III_____
Proclamation of 1763_____
a. King of England during the French and Indian
War, Revolutionary War, etc.
b. Thinly populated frontier area between
coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mtns.
c. The first Europeans to settle the frontier
d. Native American uprising where an alliance
of tribes began to attack British frontier forts
e. Law that banned British settlers from settling
west of the Appalachian Mountains
Thoroughly answer the following questions, using bullets when necessary:
19. (a) Why did pioneers move into the Ohio River Valley and west of the Appalachian Mountains? (b)
What was the primary fear of settlers in this area?
(a)
(b)
20. Why did native Americans in the Ohio River valley unite and join Pontiac to fight the British?
(a)
21. (a) What were the provisions (terms) of the Proclamation of 1763? (b) Why did King George III issue
the proclamation (see quote on page 166)? (c) Was the Proclamation enforced? Why or why not?
(a)
(b)
(c)
Section 6-3: Trouble Over Colonists’ Rights
Match the following terms with their definitions:
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George Greenville_____
Sugar Act_____
James Otis_____
Samuel Adams_____
Committees of Correspondence_____
Boycott_____
Stamp Act_____
Sons of Liberty_____
Patrick Henry_____
Repeal_____
a. Act that placed taxes on products such as
molasses and sugar imported by the colonies
b. Term that means a refusal to buy certain
goods or products
c. Virginia politician that proposed a series of
resolutions to the Virginia House of Burgesses
protesting the Stamp Act
d. Act requiring colonists to pay for an official
stamp on all paper products
e. Colonial secret society formed to protest
taxes and frighten tax collectors
f. Boston lawyer that was one of the first to
protest new colonial taxes levied by Parliament
g. Massachusetts leader who believed that
people should not be taxed without
representation in Parliament
h. Groups that communicated and contacted
other towns and communities
i. Prime minister of England that first proposed
taxing the colonies to pay for the French and
Indian War
j. Word that means to end a law or act
Thoroughly answer the following questions, using bullets when necessary:
32. For what two reasons did Parliament pass new taxes to be paid by the American colonists?
(a)
(b)
33. Aside from taxation, what some other restrictions were placed on Americans by the British
government?
(a)
(b)
34. Explain the concept of “taxation without representation”.
(a)
35. How did the American colonists respond to new taxes and what they saw as a violation of their
rights?
(a)
(b)
(c)
36. List the taxes levied against the colonies by Parliament directly after the French and Indian War, and
the purpose of each.
(a)
(b)
Section 6-4: New Taxes and Tensions
Match the following terms with the correct definition:
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Townshend Acts_____
Writs of Assistance_____
Daughters of Liberty_____
Propaganda_____
Boston Massacre_____
John Adams_____
Tea Act_____
Boston Tea Party_____
Intolerable Acts_____
Mercy Otis Warren_____
a. Event in which Sons of Liberty dressed as native
Americans threw tons of tea into Boston Harbor in
protest of the Tea Act
b. Acts that placed duties on various imported
products such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
c. Special forms that allowed customs agents to
search for smuggled goods
d. Group formed by female colonists that supported
the boycott of British goods in the colonies
e. Information that only gives one side of an
argument
f. Event in which British soldiers fired upon an
unruly crowd in Boston, Massachusetts in 1770.
g. Act that allowed the British East India Company to
become the sole provider of tea to the colonies
h. Lawyer who defended the British soldiers accused
in the Boston Massacre
i. Also known as the Coercive Acts, these acts closed
Boston Harbor, cancelled the charter of
Massachusetts, etc.
j. Colonial playwright that criticized the British
government
Thoroughly answer the following questions, using bullets when necessary:
47. How did the American colonists respond to various taxes such as those imposed by the Townshend
Acts?
(a)
(b)
(c)
48. (a) What led to the Boston Massacre? (b) Who defended the British soldiers in its aftermath, and (c)
what was the outcome of their trial?
(a)
(b)
(c)
49. (a) Describe the Boston Tea Party and (b) why it took place.
(a)
(b)
50. (a-e) What were the five major provisions of the so-called Intolerable Acts? (f) What effect did these
laws have on British-American relations?
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(b)
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(e)
(f)