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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. 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) George Warner.
(c) William Drayton.
(d) Matthew Lyon.

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

3. Who wrote "Common Sense"?
(a) Robert Munsford.
(b) Thomas Paine.
(c) Jeremy Belknap.
(d) Samuel Cooper.

4. Who was the speaker of the House of Burgess in 1766?
(a) John Robinson.
(b) Algernon Sidney.
(c) John Criswell.
(d) Richard Henry Lee.

5. Who called traditional ties of a monarchical society "bonds of blood, family, and personal influence"?
(a) James Allen.
(b) Israel Williams.
(c) Jeremy Belknap.
(d) Owen Biddle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?

3. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?

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

5. By 1800, what percent of the Philadelphia labor force were indentured servants?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?

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

6. 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?

7. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

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

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

10. 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?

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