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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who drew up the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
(a) George Mason.
(b) William Livingston.
(c) James Cheetham.
(d) Charles Carroll.

4. When was the Virgina constitution written?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1774.

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

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

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

8. Who was the speaker of the House of Burgess in 1766?
(a) Algernon Sidney.
(b) John Criswell.
(c) Richard Henry Lee.
(d) John Robinson.

9. Who wrote the book "The Idle Man"?
(a) David Dudley.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Richard Henry Dana.
(d) James Kent.

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

11. What year was the Continental Congress?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1774.

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

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

14. In 1774 Philadelphia, what was the Philadelphia Committee of Nineteen?
(a) A trade organization.
(b) A religious organization.
(c) A resistance organization.
(d) A loyalist organization.

15. Who strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?
(a) William Drayton.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) George Warner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?

2. What did the revolutionaries mean when they said they supported equality?

3. 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"?

4. How many American whiskey distilleries were there in 1830?

5. When did Americans begin to call for the boycotting of British goods?

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