Questions on American Independence and Revolution

Long Answer Questions
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1 Consider Samuel Seabury’s thought on American independence. How does Seabury feel about independence? Why does he think independence was or was not a good idea?
Seabury was a conservative clergyman while, at the same time, a politically active one at that. He became famous as a result of his efforts to try and convince the American citizens not to seek independence. He wrote many pamphlets against what he termed as 'unlawful congresses and committees,' the same that was at the time being constituted to seek independence from the British. He was, therefore, indirectly and even directly trying to convince these individuals to stop holding meetings that agitate for independence from the Crown. He was a staunch Loyalist to the monarchy.
He feels that the way things were being done was a recipe for disaster and chaos in the country. He thought that independence was bad because the authorities that had come into force had done so without any permission from either the Crown or the representatives of the people. The so-called committees and the Congress, according to him, were 'tyrannical' at best, in the manner they took over the management of the whole system and overshadowed the power of the representatives, which meant they had overshadowed the will of the people. He also thinks independence was a bad idea because the process of achieving it meant a complete cutting of ties and even damage to the relationship between America and the monarch.
2 Consider John Lawson’s discussion of household economy in Carolina. What was the division of labor in Carolina households? Do you think it was representative of households elsewhere in colonial America?
Lawson traveled a great deal to study and record the story of the Carolinas, both north and south. What he found at the end was quite interesting. He discovered that the kind of lifestyle in relation to the households in Carolina was quite different compared to the rest of the colonies. Unlike anywhere else in the Americas, the distribution of labor was spread quite equally in Carolina households. Regardless of age or gender, there seemed to be everyone's hands on deck when it came to household duties and responsibilities. Lawson notes that the day-to-day life of a typical Carolina household revolved around all the members, be it men, women, or children.
Girls, for example, were not just fixed on sewing and using the spinning wheel. They could also engage in daily activities with much expertise too. As a result, they mastered many things and chores, both within and outside the house, at quite an early age. The family was the center of economic life for most inhabitants of Carolina. The sufficiency or poverty of any household was determined by the work output of wives and daughters and how they helped the man of the house on the farm as well. This was not representative of the rest of the colonies, where duties were distributed according to gender and age. For example, in other colonies, men were to toil on the farms as the women did the household chores.
3 In 1751, Benjamin Franklin offered his assessment of the German-speaking immigrants who arrived in large numbers in Pennsylvania. What did Frank...