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Which British measure required revenue stamps on newspapers, licenses and legal documents?Read the answer and worked solution →France marked out its North American empire with forts and trading posts running between which two points?Read the answer and worked solution →Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union put before the colonies in 1754?Read the answer and worked solution →The royal proclamation of 1763 reserved the western territory for whose use?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which British measure required revenue stamps on newspapers, licenses and legal documents?

  1. The Stamp Act
  2. The Quebec Act
  3. The Currency Act
  4. The Billeting Act
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Correct answer: A. The Stamp Act

1. After 1763 Parliament looked for a tax on the colonies that would fall on every kind of paper business. 2. Revenue stamps were to be affixed to all newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, licenses, leases and other legal documents. 3. That measure is the Stamp Act, and it was the one that sparked organized colonial resistance. 4. The Quebec Act dealt with the boundaries and the religious rights of Quebec rather than with any tax. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AT ISSUE_

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France marked out its North American empire with forts and trading posts running between which two points?

  1. Boston and New Orleans
  2. Quebec and New Orleans
  3. Quebec and Charleston
  4. Montreal and Savannah
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Correct answer: B. Quebec and New Orleans

1. France sent over fewer settlers than Britain but more explorers, missionaries and fur traders. 2. Those men took possession of the Mississippi River and built a line of forts and trading posts along it. 3. The crescent that resulted stretched from Quebec in the northeast to New Orleans in the south. 4. It pinned the British to the narrow belt of land east of the Appalachian Mountains. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section BRITISH AND FRENCH CLASH_

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Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union put before the colonies in 1754?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Richard Henry Lee
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. John Dickinson
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Correct answer: C. Benjamin Franklin

1. The Albany Congress met to settle Indian grievances but went further and called for a colonial union. 2. Benjamin Franklin drafted the plan the delegates adopted there. 3. It gave a president appointed by the King a grand council of delegates chosen by the assemblies. 4. Jefferson and Lee both belong to the independence debates of the 1770s, not to Albany in 1754. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FIRST STIRRING OF UNITY_

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