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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 Ben Franklin say about government?

2. What was the primary nationality of the American colonists?

3. Who was the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts during the last quarter of the 18th century?

4. When first offered, why did Ben Franklin say he would not accept the military rank of colonel?

5. What were the religious upheavals in the colonies eventually called?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was republicanism defined at the time of the American Revolution?

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

4. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

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

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

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

8. How was the term 'gentleman' redefined in the 16th century?

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

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

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 2

How was James Guild's rise from humble origins to respectability typical of the American dream? What were the steps of his journey and how did they typify the hopes of other humbly born Americans?

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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