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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?
(a) 20%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had an international reputation as a hero in the 1780s?

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. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?

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

5. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Towards the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century, what was the result of Americans believing that every man was his own moral agent who was his own master in all respects and could dispose himself as he wished?

2. What influence did George Washington exert at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?

3. What does this quote mean? "Idolatry to Monarchs, and servility to Aristocratic Pride was never so totally eradicated from so many in so short a time."

4. In colonial America, how did the meaning of the word civility change in the last half of the 18th century?

5. After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, why did the revolutionary leaders almost immediately begin to doubt that their hope of a utopian America would be realized?

6. What was the Constitution of 1787 suppose to mitigate?

7. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?

8. By the end of the 18th century, what was the source of the American aristocracy's downfall?

9. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?

10. What was hoped to replace fear and favor in enlightened colonial American society? How would the replacement be manifested?

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