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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 labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?
(a) George Warner.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) Abraham Bishop
(d) William Drayton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did John Adams consider to be the main mark of a gentleman?
(a) Dedication to public service.
(b) Virture and charitable causes.
(c) Wealth and ease of life.
(d) A liberal arts education.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?

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

3. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?

4. Who wrote "Common Sense"?

5. When did the first American Congress meet?

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