USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Colonial America, there were three main social classes. They were the gentry, the middle class, and the poor. The highest class was the gentry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished scientific and literary American of his age, was the first American diplomat. He served from 1776 to 1778 on a three-man commission to France charged with the critical task of gaining French support for American independence.

Detailed explanation-3: -With an empire that was constantly expanding, Great Britain needed a strong and effective system of government. On the eve of the American Revolution, this system was a constitutional monarchy, in which both a monarch-in this case a king-and a legislative body, or Parliament, jointly managed the Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -The vast majority lived in rural farming villages on their own property–less than 10 percent lived in cities. Family farms dominated the north. Large plantations that grew cash crops like tobacco and rice dominated the mid-Atlantic and southern landscape.