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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?
(a) Patronage.
(b) Paucity.
(c) Consequentialism.
(d) Prerogativism.

2. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?
(a) It was pubically beaten.
(b) It was burned.
(c) It was hanged.
(d) It was buried.

3. Who became the richest man in Gloucester, R.I., just a few years before the revolution?
(a) Thomas Hutchinson.
(b) David Ramsey.
(c) Josiah Quincy.
(d) Moses Cooper.

4. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?
(a) Theodore Sedgewick.
(b) Francis Grund.
(c) Micheal Chevalier.
(d) Edward Everett.

5. Who did the American colonists blame when the wrong people held office?
(a) The voters.
(b) The crown.
(c) Other officials.
(d) Themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1790s, who proclaimed that every man and woman in every society ought to work?

2. What sail maker spoke for all industrious working men in 1797?

3. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?

4. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?

5. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?

(see the answer key)

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