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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What spending trend in colonial America did social conservatives condemn?
(a) Speculative spending.
(b) Foolish spending.
(c) Recreational spending.
(d) Emulation spending.

2. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?
(a) As equals.
(b) As fathers.
(c) As mothers.
(d) As parents.

3. Who in colonial America had the best opportunity to become wealthy?
(a) Those engaged in overseas commerce.
(b) Those engaged in supplying goods to the colonists.
(c) Those engaged in colonial politics.
(d) Those engaged in selling arms in the war.

4. How did Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria benefit from increased colonial marketing?
(a) They became destinations for immigrants.
(b) They attracted more lucrative businesses.
(c) They became booming ports.
(d) More money is spent in them.

5. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Stability.

6. When meeting someone new in colonial America, what was required for confidence in dealing with that person?
(a) Compatible personalities.
(b) Common interests.
(c) A letter of introduction.
(d) A mutual acquaintance.

7. Where was Ben Franklin quartered when he sailed to England in 1724?
(a) With the captain.
(b) Steerage.
(c) With the crew.
(d) First class.

8. What relationship did the British farmer have with the land he worked?
(a) He was a tenant.
(b) He borrowed it.
(c) He lent it.
(d) He was the owner.

9. In colonial America, what emerged after politics cease to be a contest among prominent families?
(a) Political parties.
(b) Fair laws.
(c) Honest officials.
(d) Money for good causes.

10. What did the original American colonists pride themselves as being?
(a) Free men with rights and liberties.
(b) Righteous with values and morals.
(c) Patriots with abilties and drives.
(d) Fortunate with possessions and families.

11. Who identified the source of the revolution as the dissolution of family authority?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Locke.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Landon Carter.

12. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?
(a) Militance.
(b) Conscientious objection.
(c) Charity.
(d) Defiance.

13. In colonial America, what was a self-made man called?
(a) An industrious Samuel.
(b) A poor Richard.
(c) A lucky Tom.
(d) A wealthy William.

14. What did Ben Franklin identify as the central political problems of his time?
(a) Love of power and money.
(b) Hatred of politicians and the military.
(c) Love of country and home.
(d) Hatred of dependence and oppression.

15. In colonial America, what outweighed the concern for family lineage?
(a) Individual desires of the head of the household.
(b) Individual desires of the father.
(c) Individual desires of the mother.
(d) Individual desires of the children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rejected "ancient prejudices" that supported hereditary monarchy?

2. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

3. What did Ben Franklin say about government?

4. Who bought the small planters tobacco crops rather than taking them on consignment?

5. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?

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