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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. In colonial America, what was a self-made man called?
2. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?
3. What was another name for colonial commoners?
4. How much land did the British victory over France in 1759-1763 open for speculation or settlement?
5. In colonial America, what was the ultimate means of defending one's honor?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Bernard Mandeville and David Hume feel about the common people buying luxuries?
2. What characterized colonial American tenantry?
3. How was mid-18th century colonial America a traditional society?
4. Give examples of the patronage Ben Franklin practiced when he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America.
5. How was patriarchy within the colonial family unit challenged during the 18th century?
6. In small face-to-face colonial society, give two examples of how official and personal affairs combined.
7. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?
8. How had the definition of aristocracy in colonial America changed by the 18th century?
9. Why could Anglo-American colonists never be good subjects to the crown?
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
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?
Essay Topic 2
How was the paternal, face-to-face nature of early colonial American society demonstrated by Henry Laurens' acts during the Stamp Act riot in 1765? What specifically did he do and what was the reaction of the rioters? How did the outcome reveal the intact hierarchical structure?
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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