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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of laws were proposed in colonial America to curb spending?
(a) Monetary laws.
(b) Pecuniary laws.
(c) Sumptuary laws.
(d) Speculative laws.

2. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?
(a) David Ramsey.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Moses Cooper.
(d) William Henry Drayton.

3. Who said he didn't know how to keep America from "sliding down into the mire of democracy"?
(a) George Cabot.
(b) Fisher Ames.
(c) Oliver Wolcott.
(d) James Kent.

4. Who argued that Britain was an unnatural parent?
(a) Whigs.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Tories.
(d) Patriots.

5. When did the Seven Years War take place?
(a) 1740s.
(b) 1750s.
(c) 1760s.
(d) 1730s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?

2. How did Colonel Landon Carter express his confusion about child rearing in colonial society?

3. How could a person be mobile in colonial society?

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

5. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?

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