Chapter 3

Quiz for Document 3-2: Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)

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Question 1

Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York provides evidence to support which of the following conclusions?A. The wars and conflicts that characterized relations between the Indians and colonists in the seventeenth century had ended by the eighteenth century.
B. In the eighteenth century, the American colonists relied on alliances with Native Americans to resist the French and extend their own power.
C. Despite continuing efforts to maintain peace with one another, cultural misunderstandings continued to make British and Native American alliances difficult.
D. Once the Iroquois recognized that the British were gaining power in North America, they sought to protect their interests by forming an alliance with the French.

Question 2

What, according to the introductory material, is the broader context of this discussion of British-Iroquois military alliance?A. There was concern over imminent warfare between the French and the British.
B. The French had attempted to make an alliance with the Iroquois Confederation.
C. Land treaty negotiations had occurred between the Iroquois and British colonies.
D. Violence had recently broken out along disputed borderlands.

Question 3

How might the letter from Canassatego to George Thomas be seen in the context of ongoing negotiations between Iroquois and British interests over land?A. Colonial officials in America were opposed to British imperial alliances with the Iroquois Confederation.
B. Onondaga leaders were threatening to support the French if they did not get what they wanted from the British colonists.
C. Onondaga leadership was attempting to secure a separate deal with colonists from the one being negotiated with the full Iroquois Confederation.
D. The Onondaga were reminding the colonists that the Iroquois negotiate with British interests from a position of strength.