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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1790s, who proclaimed that every man and woman in every society ought to work?
(a) Parson Weems.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Edward Everett.

2. What eventually became the sole criterion for the political worth of a person?
(a) Loyalty to the administration.
(b) Loyalty to the state.
(c) Loyalty to the party.
(d) Loyalty to the people.

3. Who said America was "just emerging from the rude unpolished condition of an infant country"?
(a) Jonathan Mayhew.
(b) George Washington.
(c) William Livingston.
(d) Joseph Addison.

4. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?
(a) That men are disposed to do bad.
(b) That men are amoral.
(c) That men are disposed to do good.
(d) That men must be taught what is good and bad.

5. Who said about Americans that their "universal roar is Commerce"?
(a) Philip Freneau.
(b) Oliver Evans.
(c) William Crafts.
(d) Samuel Mitchill.

6. Who said he didn't know how to keep America from "sliding down into the mire of democracy"?
(a) Oliver Wolcott.
(b) George Cabot.
(c) James Kent.
(d) Fisher Ames.

7. What was democracy considered in the 18th century?
(a) A utopian term or society's hope.
(b) An impossible accomplishment to be dismissed.
(c) A present condition of American life.
(d) A technical term of political theory.

8. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?
(a) Pervasive equality.
(b) Ostentatious aristocracy.
(c) Religious dissent.
(d) Conspicuous consumption.

9. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?
(a) Democracy.
(b) The Federalists.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Constitution.

10. By 1820, which territories had doubled the size of America?
(a) Florida and Alabama.
(b) Louisiana and Mississippi.
(c) Florida and Louisiana.
(d) Alabama and Mississippi.

11. Which President said, "Parties would always exist"?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

12. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?
(a) Edward Everett.
(b) Micheal Chevalier.
(c) Francis Grund.
(d) Theodore Sedgewick.

13. What was the most radical ideology initiated by the Revolution?
(a) Liberalism.
(b) . Republicanism.
(c) Equality.
(d) Democracy.

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

15. What did Leverett Saltonstall call "the great bond of civil society"?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Individual conscience.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "All Christendom has been decomposed, broken in pieces" in this "fiery furnace of democracy"?

2. What most alarmed the American colonial gentry of the 1760s and 1770s?

3. By 1800, what percent of the Philadelphia labor force were indentured servants?

4. In 1774 Philadelphia, what was the Philadelphia Committee of Nineteen?

5. Who said America, "hath a blank sheet to write upon"?

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