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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. 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
War of Austrian Succesion
Sir Francis Drake
French and Indian War
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
2. In 1739 British Parliment pressured Prime Minister Walpole to attack Spain.
War of Jenkins Ear
Privateers
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
3. Ended War of Austian Succession.
War of Jenkins Ear
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Boston Tea Party
William Pitt the Elder
4. The King the the colonists revolted against.
Privateers
War of Austrian Succesion
French and Indian War
King George III
5. Pirates made legal by the government
Privateers
War of Austrian Succesion
Treaty of Paris
French and Indian War
6. 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.
William Pitt the Elder
War of Jenkins Ear
Boston Tea Party
Sir Francis Drake
7. (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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8. Americans were forbidden to move west of the Appalachians by Britain.
Comparative advantage
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party
Jean-Baptist Colbert
9. The chief minister of Louis XIV. Explored mercantilism.
War of Jenkins Ear
Seven Years's War
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Jean-Baptist Colbert
10. Coincided with the Seven Years' War. Started when George Washington attacked the French in Ohio. French defeat happened on the Plains of Abraham
King George III
French and Indian War
William Pitt the Elder
Privateers
11. Lands where France and Britain fought for power and money.
King George III
French and Indian War
West Indies - America - and India
Mercantilism
12. The secretary of state in Britain. Wanted to get America east of the Mississippi.
Boston Tea Party
William Pitt the Elder
War of Jenkins Ear
Privateers
13. Assisted American in the their revolution - mainly to see Britain beat.
Proclamation of 1763
Sir Francis Drake
William Pitt the Elder
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
14. The british and French attempts at making India a colony.
William Pitt the Elder
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
War of Jenkins Ear
Boston Tea Party
15. Plundered Spain's ships. found approval with the English government.
West Indies - America - and India
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Sir Francis Drake
16. Bascially the belief that the amount of wealth in the world is limited.
French and Indian War
War of Jenkins Ear
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Mercantilism
17. 1763. Ended the French and Indian War. Britain got the land east of the Mississippi. Canada got the Ohioi River Valley.
Treaty of Paris
Privateers
Sir Francis Drake
Comparative advantage
18. 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.
Jean-Baptist Colbert
Comparative advantage
Treaty of Paris
Boston Tea Party