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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) George Washington.
(d) Jonathan Mayhew.

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

4. Who resigned from Congress in 1778 because he did not feel he could be a good Congressman because of necessity he was also compelled to practice law?
(a) David Hume.
(b) James Iredell.
(c) John Jebb.
(d) Thomas Stone.

5. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Democracy.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Federalists.

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

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. In the late 18th century, what replaced whipping and execution as penal codes?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Restitution.
(c) Deportation.
(d) Rehabilitation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who said America, "hath a blank sheet to write upon"?
(a) Lord Chesterfield.
(b) Thomas Paine.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Common Sense"?

2. 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"?

3. What eventually became the sole criterion for the political worth of a person?

4. Who said that "Benevolence is the Cement and Support of . . . the Great Community of mankind"?

5. Who said, "All Christendom has been decomposed, broken in pieces" in this "fiery furnace of democracy"?

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