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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?
(a) Monarchial control.
(b) A standing army.
(c) A constitutional government.
(d) A President.

2. Originally in colonial America, how were gentlemen to treat inferiors and subordinates?
(a) As equals.
(b) As children.
(c) As parents.
(d) As spouses.

3. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?
(a) They threathened disinheritance.
(b) They took away their possessions.
(c) They took them to court.
(d) They used corporal punishment.

4. Who in colonial America had the best opportunity to become wealthy?
(a) Those engaged in overseas commerce.
(b) Those engaged in supplying goods to the colonists.
(c) Those engaged in selling arms in the war.
(d) Those engaged in colonial politics.

5. In colonial America, what were the aristocracy allowed to engage in that they weren't allowed in Britain?
(a) Farming.
(b) Use of oaths.
(c) Retail trade.
(d) Gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?

2. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?

3. What relationship did the American farmer have with the land he worked?

4. What was the colonial role in the renewed Anglo-French warfare in the 1750s?

5. What was the highest level of knowledge of a trade in colonial America?

(see the answer key)

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