AP US History · Topic 3.2
The Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) Practice
Part of Period 3: 1754–1800.
Practice questions
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Sample questions
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Sample 1difficulty 3/5
The French and Indian War (1754-1763) began over
- Acheck_circle
Conflicts in the Ohio Valley between British colonists and French/Native interests
- B
Disputes over British taxation of French sugar and molasses imports in the Caribbean
- C
Religious differences between Catholic French and Protestant British colonists in New England
- D
Competition over the transatlantic slave trade routes between Africa and the Caribbean
Why
Part of the wider Seven Years' War in Europe; settled French defeat in North America.
- A
Sample 2difficulty 3/5
"That humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution... A President-General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people." — Benjamin Franklin, Albany Plan of Union, 1754
Which feature of the plan, as quoted here, best illustrates Franklin's attempt to balance imperial authority with colonial self-government?
- A
Establishing a hereditary American peerage modeled on the House of Lords
- Bcheck_circle
Pairing a Crown-appointed President-General with a Grand Council elected by colonial representatives
- C
Granting Parliament the right to dissolve all existing colonial charters at will
- D
Allowing each colony to negotiate independent treaties with European powers
Why
The President-General/Grand Council pairing balances imperial appointment with colonial election. The plan did not abolish charters, create an American peerage, or allow independent foreign treaties—those distractors are period-plausible inventions but contradict the text.
- A
Sample 3difficulty 3/5
"That humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution... A President-General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people." — Benjamin Franklin, Albany Plan of Union, 1754
The Albany Plan was proposed primarily in response to which immediate development?
- A
The collapse of the Dominion of New England in 1689
- B
Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act earlier that year
- C
A coordinated Cherokee-Creek invasion of Pennsylvania
- Dcheck_circle
The outbreak of frontier conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio Valley
Why
The Albany Congress met in summer 1754 to coordinate defense and Iroquois diplomacy as Anglo-French clashes erupted in the Ohio Valley. The Stamp Act came in 1765, no such Cherokee-Creek invasion occurred, and the Dominion of New England had collapsed two generations earlier.
- A
Sample 4difficulty 3/5
The territorial change shown most directly produced which colonial grievance?
- Acheck_circle
British attempts to bar westward settlement and tax colonists for war debts
- B
French refusal to leave the Ohio Valley after the war
- C
Spanish blockade of New England fisheries
- D
Native American expulsion from all eastern lands
Why
Britain's gains brought new costs and tensions: the Proclamation of 1763 limited westward movement, and Parliament passed taxes (Sugar, Stamp Acts) to defray war expenses.
- A
Sample 5difficulty 4/5
"That humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution... A President-General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people." — Benjamin Franklin, Albany Plan of Union, 1754
Although rejected at the time, the Albany Plan is most often cited by historians as a precursor to which later development?
- A
The chartering of the Hudson's Bay Company
- B
The Navigation Acts' enforcement through vice-admiralty courts
- Ccheck_circle
Intercolonial cooperation under bodies like the Continental Congress
- D
The signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the New World
Why
Historians treat the Albany Plan as a conceptual precursor to coordinated colonial bodies such as the Stamp Act Congress and Continental Congress. The Navigation Acts (1660s+), Hudson's Bay Company (1670), and Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) all predate or are unrelated to Franklin's federal framework.
- A