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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. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?

2. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?

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

4. What did Republicans hold as extremely important?

5. Why was poverty considered a virtue for common colonial people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bernard Mandeville and David Hume feel about the common people buying luxuries?

2. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

3. How was family defined in colonial America?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 monarchical power in England's government with its power in the colonial government before the revolution.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

By the early 19th century, how were the productive classes, those people working in a useful occupation, looked upon? How was the definition of work changed from the beginning of the 18th century? What virtue did work now imply?

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