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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 were the religious upheavals in the colonies eventually called?

2. What did colonial religious sects have in common?

3. Who must yield power for a government to be good?

4. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?

5. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

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

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

5. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?

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

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

8. What happened in literature following Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688?

9. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how English aristocrats dominated and sustained their localities with how American aristocrats related to their localities.

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of the 19th century, what massive economic changes took place that affected the mind and character of Americans? Include technology, transportation, and commerce in your explanation.

Essay Topic 3

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

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