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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 was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?

2. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?

3. In the American colonies, what was the euphemistic name for every kind of personal connection, even if inherently unequal?

4. How did Colonel Landon Carter express his confusion about child rearing in colonial society?

5. What did Ben Franklin identify as the central political problems of his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did colonial imports of British goods change the twenty-five years before the Revolution?

2. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

3. How did wealthy commoners in the colonies try to gain status as gentlemen?

4. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

5. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

6. How was individual governmental service defined under the monarchy?

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

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

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

10. How did gentry families try to emulate English nobility?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the republicanism of the English constitution make the English monarchy unique among the other European monarchies and hold both monarchical and republican values together in the English culture?

Essay Topic 2

Thomas Hutchinson, a colonial magistrate and the royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the Boston Tea Party, was one of the most learned and refined men in all of North America. By the early 1770s he was thoroughly hated by the colonists. Explain his colonial history until just before the Revolution and enumerate the reasons he was so hated and his reactions to those who hated him.

Essay Topic 3

How was the paternal, face-to-face nature of early colonial American society demonstrated by Henry Laurens' acts during the Stamp Act riot in 1765? What specifically did he do and what was the reaction of the rioters? How did the outcome reveal the intact hierarchical structure?

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