Base your answer to this question on the passage below and your knowledge of social studies. The French and Indian War resulted in a British victory, but its effects led to an escalation of tensions between the American colonists and their British government.
Firstly, the war had been enormously expensive. The British government’s attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses resulted in increasing colonial resentment of British attempts to expand authority in the colonies. Secondly, British attempts to limit western expansion by colonists further angered the colonists. American colonists wanted to expand west to access more natural resources, which they saw as an economic opportunity. The British were concerned that westward expansion would result in another expensive Indian war. These disputes would ultimately spur colonial rebellion that eventually developed into a full-scale war for independence.
Office of the Historian, United States of America Department of State (2014)
8. What policy was issued by the British government in an effort to avoid conflict between the American colonists and Native Americans after the French and Indian War?
A. The Proclamation of 1763
B. The Townshend Acts
C. The Quartering Act
D. The Monroe Doctrine
9. All of the following statements support the American colonists’ point of view about the French and Indian War except
A. The British had been fighting the French prior to the French and Indian War, so the colonists should not be required to pay for it.
B. The taxation on the colonists was not fair since the colonists had no representation in Parliament.
C. The limitations on the expansion of the colonies hurt the colonial farmers and settlers since they
could not expand to the west.
D. The British government had a right to place strict limitations on the colonists since they supported
and owned the colonies.
10. Which statement best supports the ideas of the British government about the French and Indian War?
A. The American colonists deserved to have their own representation in Parliament since they had created their own local governments.
B. The King was too harsh on the American colonists, and the economic hardships the colonists faced were unfair.
C. The American colonists should not have to pay taxes to the British government, since they did not have any representation in Parliament.
D. The American colonists had been protected from the Native Americans and as a result, they should help pay for the French and Indian War.