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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Republicans hold as extremely important?
(a) Liberty and independence.
(b) Counterculture and reorganization.
(c) Peace and order.
(d) Monarchy and enlightenment.

2. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?
(a) Farming.
(b) Outside investors.
(c) Family networks.
(d) Slavery.

3. What did monarchists hold as extremely important?
(a) Counterculture and reorganization.
(b) Peace and order.
(c) Liberty and independence.
(d) Monarchy and enlightenment.

4. In colonial America, what were women considered from a legal standpoint?
(a) They were independent.
(b) They were possessions.
(c) They were non-people.
(d) They were dependent.

5. In the American colonies, what was the euphemistic name for every kind of personal connection, even if inherently unequal?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Patronage.
(c) Dependency.
(d) Paternalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?

2. What did Ben Franklin say about government?

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

4. Who was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Tea Party?

5. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?

Short Essay Questions

1. In colonial America, what was an entailed estate?

2. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

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

4. In small face-to-face colonial society, give two examples of how official and personal affairs combined.

5. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

6. What was the responsibility of the government under a monarchy?

7. In times of war, how were aristocratic soldiers treated differently than common soldiers?

8. What was the thinking of many colonial American Protestants towards child rearing?

9. Before the revolution, what did the aristocracy think of the common people?

10. What did the British conquest of the French in 1759 and the subsequent peace in 1763 do to colonial expansion?

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