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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?
(a) Monarchial control.
(b) A standing army.
(c) A President.
(d) A constitutional government.

2. What did colonial religious sects have in common?
(a) They advocated controlling authority.
(b) They advocated honoring authority.
(c) They advocated disobeying authority.
(d) They advocated disavowing authority.

3. How much land did the British victory over France in 1759-1763 open for speculation or settlement?
(a) 500 million acres.
(b) 700 million acres.
(c) 600 million acres.
(d) 400 million acres.

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

5. What was the most radical change brought about by the Revolution?
(a) Common people had the same opportunities as the upper class.
(b) The upper class must share their status with commoners.
(c) The upper class no longer felt superior.
(d) Common people no longer felt inferior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?

2. In colonial America, who was rescued from poverty as a fourteen-year-old boy, only to become one of Virginia's most distinguished leaders?

3. How was the Anglican church part of politics in Britain?

4. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?

5. Who said he didn't know how to keep America from "sliding down into the mire of democracy"?

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