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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 the highest level of knowledge of a trade in colonial America?

2. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?

3. In colonial America, what was a self-made man called?

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

5. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

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

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

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

5. What was characteristic of economic exchanges in colonial America?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.

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

The monarchy's social cement of family, force, patronage, and dependence had made it powerful. After the revolution, what new social adhesive in colonial America replaced the monarchy? How was this replacement accomplished?

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