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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 said that the mind could be cultivated like a garden?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Lord Chesterfield.
(c) Thomas Paine.
(d) John Adams.

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

3. Who said that "Benevolence is the Cement and Support of . . . the Great Community of mankind"?
(a) Samuel Cooper.
(b) James Allen.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) Israel Williams.

4. Who wrote "The Religion of Nature Delineated"?
(a) Lord Chesterfield.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) William Wollaston.
(d) Thomas Paine.

5. When did the first American Congress meet?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1786.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1800, what percent of the American labor force was in farming?

2. What became a surrogate religion for colonial Americans suspicious of traditional Christianity?

3. What eventually became the sole criterion for the political worth of a person?

4. Who said, "We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears"?

5. Where was the first county fair held?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was it impossible for Christianity to be the one means of unifying America at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries?

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

5. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

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

7. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

8. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?

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

10. What does this quote mean? "Idolatry to Monarchs, and servility to Aristocratic Pride was never so totally eradicated from so many in so short a time."

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