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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 did monarchists hold as extremely important?

3. When did the Seven Years War take place?

4. What percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?

5. What did the original American colonists pride themselves as being?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

3. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contrast American competition for public office with that kind of competition in England. What about the new American government led to the differences? How did political parties exacerbate the competition? How did politicians' ultimate view of office differ from the British view of office?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the life and leisure of the aristocracy to the life and labor of the common people in colonial America before the revolution.

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