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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?
(a) 5%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

2. What sail maker spoke for all industrious working men in 1797?
(a) George Warner.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) William Drayton.
(d) Abraham Bishop.

3. When was the Virgina constitution written?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1774.

4. Who was the speaker of the House of Burgess in 1766?
(a) Richard Henry Lee.
(b) John Robinson.
(c) John Criswell.
(d) Algernon Sidney.

5. Who was the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts during the last quarter of the 18th century?
(a) Thomas Hutchinson.
(b) Henry McCulloch.
(c) John Hancock.
(d) Ben Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?

2. When first offered, why did Ben Franklin say he would not accept the military rank of colonel?

3. In the 1790s, who proclaimed that every man and woman in every society ought to work?

4. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?

5. By 1800, what percent of the Philadelphia labor force were indentured servants?

(see the answer key)

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