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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1787, who said America lacked cohesion?
(a) John C. Calhoun.
(b) Charles Nisbet.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) Elkanah Watson.

3. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?
(a) That men are disposed to do good.
(b) That men are amoral.
(c) That men are disposed to do bad.
(d) That men must be taught what is good and bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?
(a) William Livingston.
(b) Joseph Addison.
(c) Jonathan Mayhew.
(d) George Washington.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Adams consider to be the main mark of a gentleman?

2. Whose Massachusetts family had done missionary work among the Indians?

3. Who called traditional ties of a monarchical society "bonds of blood, family, and personal influence"?

4. Who drew up the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

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

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