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

2. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?

3. In colonial America, what were the aristocracy allowed to engage in that they weren't allowed in Britain?

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

5. Who rejected "ancient prejudices" that supported hereditary monarchy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In times of war, how were aristocratic soldiers treated differently than common soldiers?

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

8. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

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

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

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

Compare and contrast the monarchical power in England's government with its power in the colonial government before the revolution.

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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