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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?

2. In the 18th century, what did the golden age of Roman literature speak about?

3. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?

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

5. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did colonists so eagerly desire titles or distinctions?

2. What was the responsibility of the government under a monarchy?

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

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

5. Give examples of the patronage Ben Franklin practiced when he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America.

6. In small face-to-face colonial society, give two examples of how official and personal affairs combined.

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

8. In colonial America, what was an entailed estate?

9. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The revolutionaries' desire had been to remove all private interests from government, but by the 1790s private interest so pervaded Congress and statehouses that Americans found it almost impossible to conceive of disinterested officials. Using Timothy Ford's example of dealings in South Carolina, explain how special interests replaced the original republican goals of keeping private interests out of the government.

Essay Topic 2

What considerations and decisions by others and George Washington, himself, led to Washington's nomination to be President?

Essay Topic 3

At the beginning of the 18th century, colonial society was only a pale reflection of British society. American patronage and hierarchies were unstable. Explain how some aspects of American society were striving to emulate their British counterparts while at the same time other powerful republican forces in society were attempting to change the very fabric of colonial America.

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