Having said this, however, one must add that there is much evidence to support the further claim of recent historians that sectional conflicts were common between 1763 and 1789. The Paxton Boys incident and the Regulator movement are representative examples of the widespread, and justified, discontent of western settlers against colonial or state governments dominated by eastern interests. Although undertones of class conflict existed beneath such hostility, the opposition was primarily geographical. Sectional conflictwhich also existed between North and Southdeserves further investigation.

　　In summary, historians must be careful about the kind of conflict they emphasize in eighteenth-century America. Yet those who stress the achievement of a general consensus among the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus without understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in order to reach it.

　　17. The author considers the contentions made by the recent historians discussed in the passage to be

　　potentially verifiable

　　partially justified

　　logically contradictory

　　ingenious but flawed

　　capricious and unsupported

　　18. The author most likely refers to historians such as Beard and Becker in order to

　　isolate the two historians whose work is most representative of the viewpoints of Progressive historians

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