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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 Republicans hold as extremely important?

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

3. Who wrote the "Spirit of Laws" in 1748?

4. What percentage of northern colonists were aristocrats?

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had the definition of aristocracy in colonial America changed by the 18th century?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Bernard Mandeville and David Hume feel about the common people buying luxuries?

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

9. How was family defined in colonial America?

10. How did wealthy commoners in the colonies try to gain status as gentlemen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how English aristocrats dominated and sustained their localities with how American aristocrats related to their localities.

Essay Topic 2

How did the American Revolution change the American people? Specifically, what is the difference between a person who is subject to a monarch and one who is a citizen in a republican nation?

Essay Topic 3

By the early 19th century, how were the productive classes, those people working in a useful occupation, looked upon? How was the definition of work changed from the beginning of the 18th century? What virtue did work now imply?

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