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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 it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?

2. Who wrote about the irreligious "Wild Woods" of the Carolina back country?

3. What did Ben Franklin say about government?

4. Historically, what kinds of men are guilty for all wars and tyrannies?

5. How could a person be mobile in colonial society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the relationship of farmers and merchants in colonial America?

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

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

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

9. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?

10. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how family networks in the colonies were used in politics. Cite the details of one specific family from the book and give descriptions of the network that generally apply.

Essay Topic 3

In the final years of his life, Thomas Jefferson was in despair over the direction America was taking. What did he hate about the changing nation? What did he see as regression rather than progress? What future did he foresee?

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