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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 outweighed the concern for family lineage?

2. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?

3. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?

4. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference between morality under a republic rather than a monarchy?

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

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

4. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

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

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

7. Give examples of the patronage Ben Franklin practiced when he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America.

8. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

10. What were the distinctions between colonial American aristocracy and British aristocracy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After the Revolution, many believed that Americans' morals were being polluted and their liberties already eroding. Blame was placed on the influence of the French Revolution. Explain why the French Revolution was blamed and specifically how they influenced and affected American society. Give your opinion of the accusations, and the reasons for your opinions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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