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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who believed progress and social harmony would result from the enlightened conclusion of the new American society?
(a) Jeremy Belknap.
(b) Robert Munsford.
(c) James Allen.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

2. What did the revolutionaries mean when they said they supported equality?
(a) They supported equality of opportunity.
(b) They supported equal distribution of wealth.
(c) They supported equal education.
(d) They supported equal income.

3. Who said America, "hath a blank sheet to write upon"?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Thomas Paine.
(c) Lord Chesterfield.
(d) John Adams.

4. What sail maker spoke for all industrious working men in 1797?
(a) George Warner.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) William Drayton.

5. Who headed the revolutionary committee in Savannah, Georgia when the Revolution began?
(a) An Anglican.
(b) A Quaker.
(c) A Jew.
(d) An atheist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?

2. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?

3. When did the first American Congress meet?

4. Before the revolution, what was labor associated with?

5. Who said, "Idolatry to Monarchs and servility of Aristocratic Pride was never so totally eradicated from so many in so short a time"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the numerous bankruptcies and financial collapses of the 1790s contribute to the democratization of America?

2. What was the Constitution of 1787 suppose to mitigate?

3. In colonial America, how did the meaning of the word civility change in the last half of the 18th century?

4. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

5. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

6. By the end of the 18th century, what was the source of the American aristocracy's downfall?

7. What social conditions which normally precipitate a revolution were absent during the American Revolution?

8. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?

9. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?

10. After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, why did the revolutionary leaders almost immediately begin to doubt that their hope of a utopian America would be realized?

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