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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Republicans hold as extremely important?
(a) Peace and order.
(b) Liberty and independence.
(c) Monarchy and enlightenment.
(d) Counterculture and reorganization.

2. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?
(a) He was a free agent.
(b) He was working his way up the ladder.
(c) He was property.
(d) He was the lowest class of society.

3. Who wrote the "Spirit of Laws" in 1748?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Hume.
(d) Cicero.

4. What was another name for colonial commoners?
(a) Egalitarians.
(b) Serfs.
(c) Plebians.
(d) Patricians.

5. How did non-English colonial Americans feel about the monarchy?
(a) They had no attachment to it.
(b) They had great respect for it.
(c) They hoped it will continue.
(d) They wished it were abolished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What spending trend in colonial America did social conservatives condemn?

2. What did the colonial American courts treat more seriously than violent acts?

3. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?

4. Who was the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts during the last quarter of the 18th century?

5. What percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the distinctions between colonial American aristocracy and British aristocracy?

2. Why was the family household in colonial America the place where most work was done?

3. How was republicanism defined at the time of the American Revolution?

4. Before the revolution, what did the aristocracy think of the common people?

5. What happened in literature following Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688?

6. Describe the different categories of merchants in colonial America.

7. What did the British conquest of the French in 1759 and the subsequent peace in 1763 do to colonial expansion?

8. Why was traditional hierarchical authority brought to question throughout the 18th century?

9. Why could Anglo-American colonists never be good subjects to the crown?

10. In times of war, how were aristocratic soldiers treated differently than common soldiers?

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