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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who resigned from Congress in 1778 because he did not feel he could be a good Congressman because of necessity he was also compelled to practice law?
(a) Thomas Stone.
(b) John Jebb.
(c) David Hume.
(d) James Iredell.

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

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

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

6. What was the population of America in 1810?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 7 million.
(d) 8 million.

7. Who said, "Idolatry to Monarchs and servility of Aristocratic Pride was never so totally eradicated from so many in so short a time"?
(a) Moses Cooper.
(b) William Henry Drayton.
(c) David Ramsey.
(d) John Adams.

8. What defined modern politicians as "persons who have little, if any regard for the welfare of the republic unless immediately connected with . . . their own private pursuits"?
(a) The Federalist Weekly News.
(b) The Philadelphia News Journal.
(c) The Niles Weekly Register.
(d) The Republican Voice.

9. Who became the richest man in Gloucester, R.I., just a few years before the revolution?
(a) Thomas Hutchinson.
(b) Moses Cooper.
(c) David Ramsey.
(d) Josiah Quincy.

10. Who said, "We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears"?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Lord Chesterfield.

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

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

13. How many American whiskey distilleries were there in 1830?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 15,000.

14. What contributed to America's economic troubles in the 1780s?
(a) The absence of manufacturing.
(b) The establishment of a new government.
(c) The withdrawal of loyalist's monies.
(d) The end of the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Leverett Saltonstall call "the great bond of civil society"?

4. Who wrote the book "The Patriots"?

5. In the late 1760s, who dismissed people's right to participate in government if they didn't have a liberal arts education?

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