Study Questions for The First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Use your book (US pp. 48 - 53 and pp. 55 -56 [through the Proclamation of 1763]) and class notes to answer the following questions.

C - indicates that you will need class notes to answer these questions.

B - indicates that you will find answers to these questions in the book

C

1.

What social classes existed in the colonies?

C

2.

What advantages did Americans have in comparison to English citizens?

B, C

3.

What was the basic structure of governments in the colonies? (Include governors, assemblies, constitutions and voting)

B, C

4.

What was the English attitude to the colonies and what was the concept of salutary neglect?

B, C

5.

How did the Great Awakening affect the colonists? (Include spiritual changes, changes in the colonists' self-concept, political significance, and changes in attitude to authority.)

B, C

6.

How were the English colonies different in the mid 18th century from what they had been in the mid 17th century?

C

7.

What were the French and British advantages at the start of the French and Indian War?

C

8.

How and why did the British win?

B, C

9.

What were the elements of the Treaty of Paris to end the French and Indian War?

c

10.

How did the British change their attitude towards the colonies after the war?

b, c

11.

What was the Proclamation of 1763 and why was it issued? What was the American reaction to it?

 

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