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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. The british and French attempts at making India a colony.
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Seven Years's War
2. 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.
War of Jenkins Ear
Privateers
Comparative advantage
Jean-Baptist Colbert
3. Bascially the belief that the amount of wealth in the world is limited.
Privateers
Mercantilism
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Seven Years's War
4. Pirates made legal by the government
West Indies - America - and India
Seven Years's War
Privateers
Comparative advantage
5. 1763. Ended the French and Indian War. Britain got the land east of the Mississippi. Canada got the Ohioi River Valley.
Treaty of Paris
Mercantilism
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
War of Austrian Succesion
6. Ended War of Austian Succession.
Treaty of Paris
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Sir Francis Drake
7. Coincided with the Seven Years' War. Started when George Washington attacked the French in Ohio. French defeat happened on the Plains of Abraham
Boston Tea Party
West Indies - America - and India
War of Austrian Succesion
French and Indian War
8. 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
King George III
West Indies - America - and India
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
War of Austrian Succesion
9. Plundered Spain's ships. found approval with the English government.
King George III
Sir Francis Drake
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
War of Austrian Succesion
10. The chief minister of Louis XIV. Explored mercantilism.
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris
King George III
Jean-Baptist Colbert
11. Lands where France and Britain fought for power and money.
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
William Pitt the Elder
West Indies - America - and India
Jean-Baptist Colbert
12. (1756-1763) Prussia and Britain were allies after the Convention of Westminster. Of course it was Britain and France fighting again.
13. Assisted American in the their revolution - mainly to see Britain beat.
Seven Years's War
War of Jenkins Ear
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
King George III
14. The King the the colonists revolted against.
Comparative advantage
Privateers
King George III
Proclamation of 1763
15. Americans were forbidden to move west of the Appalachians by Britain.
War of Austrian Succesion
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
16. 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.
Mercantilism
Privateers
Boston Tea Party
Jean-Baptist Colbert
17. In 1739 British Parliment pressured Prime Minister Walpole to attack Spain.
Seven Years's War
William Pitt the Elder
Treaty of Paris
War of Jenkins Ear
18. The secretary of state in Britain. Wanted to get America east of the Mississippi.
War of Austrian Succesion
Jean-Baptist Colbert
William Pitt the Elder
British East India Company and Compagnie des Indes