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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. Whose Massachusetts family had done missionary work among the Indians?
(a) Joseph Addison.
(b) Lord Chesterfield.
(c) William Livingston.
(d) Jonathan Mayhew.

2. What form of address came into general use in the late 18th century?
(a) Goodman.
(b) Mr.
(c) Freeman.
(d) Sir.

3. 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) Thomas Stone.
(b) James Iredell.
(c) John Jebb.
(d) David Hume.

4. In the late 1760s, who dismissed people's right to participate in government if they didn't have a liberal arts education?
(a) Abraham Bishop.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) George Warner.
(d) William Drayton.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who headed the revolutionary committee in Savannah, Georgia when the Revolution began?

2. What became a surrogate religion for colonial Americans suspicious of traditional Christianity?

3. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?

4. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?

5. Who said he didn't know how to keep America from "sliding down into the mire of democracy"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was it impossible for Christianity to be the one means of unifying America at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries?

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

4. Why were the American gentry alarmed at the desire of the common people to share in the conduct of the government?

5. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?

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

7. According to John Toland, what is the difference between a man who is free and one who is dependent?

8. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

9. What social conditions which normally precipitate a revolution were absent during the American Revolution?

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

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