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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. What did colonial religious sects have in common?

2. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?

3. Who was the head of a colonial household?

4. Where was Ben Franklin quartered when he sailed to England in 1724?

5. How did Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria benefit from increased colonial marketing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did colonial imports of British goods change the twenty-five years before the Revolution?

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

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

5. Why was traditional hierarchical authority brought to question throughout the 18th century?

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

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

8. Why could Anglo-American colonists never be good subjects to the crown?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how family networks in the colonies were used in politics. Cite the details of one specific family from the book and give descriptions of the network that generally apply.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the life and leisure of the aristocracy to the life and labor of the common people in colonial America before the revolution.

Essay Topic 3

The revolutionaries' desire had been to remove all private interests from government, but by the 1790s private interest so pervaded Congress and statehouses that Americans found it almost impossible to conceive of disinterested officials. Using Timothy Ford's example of dealings in South Carolina, explain how special interests replaced the original republican goals of keeping private interests out of the government.

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