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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the revolution, what was labor associated with?
(a) Slavery and servitude.
(b) Increased productivity.
(c) Tradition and necessity.
(d) Oppression and fear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who had an international reputation as a hero in the 1780s?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) George Washington.
(d) John Adams.

9. What became a surrogate religion for colonial Americans suspicious of traditional Christianity?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Civic organizations.
(c) Freemasonry.
(d) The Quaker religion.

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

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

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

13. In 1800, what percent of the American labor force was in farming?
(a) 75%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 85%.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 18th century, what replaced whipping and execution as penal codes?

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

3. Who headed the revolutionary committee in Savannah, Georgia when the Revolution began?

4. Who said America was "just emerging from the rude unpolished condition of an infant country"?

5. Who said that the mind could be cultivated like a garden?

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