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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically, what do good Englishmen do?

2. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?

3. Who in colonial America had the best opportunity to become wealthy?

4. In the American colonies, what was the euphemistic name for every kind of personal connection, even if inherently unequal?

5. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was mid-18th century colonial America a traditional society?

2. Why did colonists so eagerly desire titles or distinctions?

3. What was the relationship of farmers and merchants in colonial America?

4. Why was the family household in colonial America the place where most work was done?

5. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

7. How was patriarchy within the colonial family unit challenged during the 18th century?

8. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the beginning of the 18th century, colonial society was only a pale reflection of British society. American patronage and hierarchies were unstable. Explain how some aspects of American society were striving to emulate their British counterparts while at the same time other powerful republican forces in society were attempting to change the very fabric of colonial America.

Essay Topic 2

How did the republicanism of the English constitution make the English monarchy unique among the other European monarchies and hold both monarchical and republican values together in the English culture?

Essay Topic 3

Thomas Hutchinson, a colonial magistrate and the royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the Boston Tea Party, was one of the most learned and refined men in all of North America. By the early 1770s he was thoroughly hated by the colonists. Explain his colonial history until just before the Revolution and enumerate the reasons he was so hated and his reactions to those who hated him.

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