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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said, "the attracting force of universal love" existed in all people?
(a) Joel Barlow.
(b) George Cabot.
(c) William Channing.
(d) William Sampson.

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

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

5. By 1800, what percent of the Philadelphia labor force were indentured servants?
(a) 2%.
(b) 4%.
(c) 3%.
(d) 1%.

6. What most alarmed the American colonial gentry of the 1760s and 1770s?
(a) That common people disrespected the gentry.
(b) That common people were striving to become gentry.
(c) That common people wanted to participate in government.
(d) That their wealth was dependent on common people.

7. When did Americans begin to call for the boycotting of British goods?
(a) When artisans in Philadelphia won four city offices.
(b) When the Stamp Act was issued.
(c) When Mechanics Hall became a meeting place.
(d) When the Patriotic Society was formed.

8. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?
(a) Moses Cooper.
(b) John Adams.
(c) David Ramsey.
(d) William Henry Drayton.

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

10. Who said, "All Christendom has been decomposed, broken in pieces" in this "fiery furnace of democracy"?
(a) Samuel Blodgett.
(b) Elias Smith.
(c) Thomas Campbell.
(d) Harrison Gray Otis.

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

12. Whose play "Cato" taught George Washington what it meant to be liberal and virtuous?
(a) Lord Chesterfield.
(b) Jonathan Mayhew.
(c) William Livingston.
(d) Joseph Addison.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said he didn't know how to keep America from "sliding down into the mire of democracy"?

2. What year was the Continental Congress?

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

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

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

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