1. What factors contributed to the growing numbers and wealth of the American colonists in the
eighteenth century?

2. Describe the structure of colonial society in the eighteenth century. What developments tended
to make society less equal and more hierarchical?

3. What were the causes and consequences of the Great Awakening?

4. What features of colonial politics contributed to the development of popular democracy, and
what kept political life from being more truly democratic?

5. How did the various churches, established and non-established, fundamentally shape eighteenth-
century colonial life, including education and politics?

6. What made American society far more equal than Britain's, but seemingly less equal than it
had been in the seventeenth century?