HW for 11/9/09

Please read pages 102-107. Answer these questions:

How did the relationship between king and Parliament change during the early 18c? What role did the prime minister play in this change?

Why was the period of the late 17c and early 18c called the "Era of Salutary Neglect?"

How did British officials in the colonies carry out [or fail to carry out] their duties? What was the effect of their activities?

What was the Albany Plan of Union? Why did it fail? What did it reveal about colonial unity?

How did the French attempt to secure their hold on the vast areas they claimed in North America?

What were the causes of the "Great War for Empire" [the Sevens Years' War or French and Indian War]? Why was it given that name?

How did the Great War for Empire become a truly international conflict? What role did the French and British colonies play in this war?

What were the stereotypes that the English had about the American colonists? that the American colonists had about the British?

What role did Native Americans play in the French and Indian War?

Why did the French lose?

List the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763.