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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 percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?

2. What did Republicans hold as extremely important?

3. What was another name for colonial commoners?

4. What kind of colonial churches dominated the first third of the 18th century?

5. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did gentry families try to emulate English nobility?

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

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

6. How was individual governmental service defined under the monarchy?

7. How was family defined in colonial America?

8. What was characteristic of economic exchanges in colonial America?

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

10. What would a colonist do if someone spoke publicly against him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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