An APUSH SAQ — Pontiac’s War

Ten questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to a 1763 historical event named after a prominent Native American Indian leader

Pontiac’s War

1. Briefly explain one specific and consequential result of Pontiac’s War.
2. Briefly describe one historical event, development, or process that occurred before Pontiac’s War.
3. Briefly describe one major similarity and one major difference between Pontiac’s War and Metacom’s War.
4. Briefly describe one major similarity and one major difference between Pontiac’s War and the Pueblo Revolt.
5. Briefly describe one major similarity and one major difference between Pontiac’s War and the Stono Rebellion.
6. Briefly describe one major similarity and one major difference between Pontiac’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion.
7. In a word, what were the Native American’s who fought on the side of Pontiac most angry about?
8. Briefly describe one major way in which the British differed from the French in their relations with Native American tribes?
9. Pontiac’s War was launched in 1763 by a loosely united group of American Indian tribes dissatisfied with British rule in a region of North American that includes portions of the eight U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as well as the Canadian province of Ontario. Does this region include land that at one time was part of the Northwest Territory? Also, does this region include land that today is part of what’s called the Midwest or the Ohio Valley?
10. Bacon’s Rebellion occurred in 1676 and before each of the following specific historical events: Pontiac’s War, the French and Indian War the Stono Rebellion, the Pueblo Revolt, the Proclamation Act of 1763, the Stamp Act, and the Boston Massacre. In what order did each of these historical events occur?