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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. Who wrote the "Spirit of Laws" in 1748?

2. What were those who opposed the Anglican church called?

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

4. What was the highest class of British society called?

5. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had the definition of aristocracy in colonial America changed by the 18th century?

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

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

4. What would a colonist do if someone spoke publicly against him?

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

6. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

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

8. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

9. What was the difference between morality under a republic rather than a monarchy?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Samuel Blodget taught that common economic interest was the best adhesive a society could have. Explain Blodget's four 'social ties' and how they related to 19th century American economy.

Essay Topic 3

How did the American Revolution change the American people? Specifically, what is the difference between a person who is subject to a monarch and one who is a citizen in a republican nation?

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