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CLEP Western Civilization II: Empires And War
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Answer 18 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Lands where France and Britain fought for power and money.
War of Jenkins Ear
West Indies - America - and India
King George III
Proclamation of 1763
2. Plundered Spain's ships. found approval with the English government.
Sir Francis Drake
Seven Years's War
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
King George III
3. Pirates made legal by the government
Privateers
William Pitt the Elder
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Mercantilism
4. Coincided with the Seven Years' War. Started when George Washington attacked the French in Ohio. French defeat happened on the Plains of Abraham
Mercantilism
War of Austrian Succesion
French and Indian War
War of Jenkins Ear
5. British East India Company had financial problems so they raised the price of tea. Thus - colonists in America showed their dissagreement in 1773. Even though Britain lost the American Revolution they were still the most powerful nation.
Boston Tea Party
West Indies - America - and India
Proclamation of 1763
Privateers
6. Ended War of Austian Succession.
Privateers
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
War of Jenkins Ear
7. The King the the colonists revolted against.
King George III
Boston Tea Party
Comparative advantage
West Indies - America - and India
8. The british and French attempts at making India a colony.
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Privateers
War of Austrian Succesion
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
9. Americans were forbidden to move west of the Appalachians by Britain.
Proclamation of 1763
Seven Years's War
Boston Tea Party
French and Indian War
10. The chief minister of Louis XIV. Explored mercantilism.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Jean-Baptist Colbert
Treaty of Paris
War of Austrian Succesion
11. (1756-1763) Prussia and Britain were allies after the Convention of Westminster. Of course it was Britain and France fighting again.
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12. France supported the aggresion of Prussia towards Austria. Austria was weakened and France was happy. Meanwhile - Britain was worried about France taking the Netherlands away from Austria - so France and Britain went to war. In 1744 France helped Spa
Comparative advantage
War of Austrian Succesion
West Indies - America - and India
King George III
13. 1763. Ended the French and Indian War. Britain got the land east of the Mississippi. Canada got the Ohioi River Valley.
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Treaty of Paris
Jean-Baptist Colbert
King George III
14. The secretary of state in Britain. Wanted to get America east of the Mississippi.
French and Indian War
West Indies - America - and India
Boston Tea Party
William Pitt the Elder
15. Assisted American in the their revolution - mainly to see Britain beat.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Sir Francis Drake
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
King George III
16. Nations should use their money - time - etc. on what they can do well - and let the other nations do what they cannot do as well.
Comparative advantage
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party
Mercantilism
17. Bascially the belief that the amount of wealth in the world is limited.
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Mercantilism
Sir Francis Drake
War of Austrian Succesion
18. In 1739 British Parliment pressured Prime Minister Walpole to attack Spain.
War of Austrian Succesion
War of Jenkins Ear
Mercantilism
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes