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APUSH: Guide Questions (Pages 135-145)
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1763
The French and Indian War (Pages 135-137)
1.
Why were the British reliant on the Iroquois Confederacy in the Ohio Valley?
2.
Why was George Washington sent to Fort Duquesne?
3.
Why were the Iroquois unhappy in 1754? What did the British do to try to
mend the relationship?
4.
What was the Albany Plan of Union? Why did it fail to receive serious
consideration?
5.
Why were some in Parliament hesitant to fight a war against France in 1755?
6.
What happened at Fort Duquesne in 1756?
The Great War for Empire (Pages 137-140)
7.
What was William Pitt’s role in the French and Indian War?
8.
Why was the Battle of Quebec significant?
9.
What did Britain gain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
10.
How did the French and Indian War reshape Britain’s empire in North
American and affect native peoples?
11.
What was Pontiac’s Rebellion?
12.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution (Pages 140-141)
13.
What allowed Britain to become the most powerful nation in the world by
1750?
14.
What impact did mechanical power have on Britain’s Industrial Revolution?
15.
How did colonists pay for British goods?
16.
What was the impact of the consumer revolution on Britain and its colonies?
The Struggle for Land in the East (Pages 141-142)
17.
What was the impact of colonial population growth in the last half of the 18th
century?
Western Rebels and Regulators (Pages 142-143)
18.
What did the Paxton Boys do in 1763? Why? What were the results?
19.
Who were the Regulators? What were their demands?
20.
Why was the Regulator movement significant?
Big Questions from Chapter:
1.
How did regional differences in settlement patterns, labor conditions, and
religious identity develop during the 18th century in both New England’s
freehold society and the diverse communities of the Middle Atlantic?
2.
How did the Enlightenment affect the emerging intellectual life of American
society?
3.
Explain the events that led up to and the consequences of the Great
Awakening.
4.
How and why did the Great War for Empire change the balance of imperial
power in North America?