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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. How much were the first congressmen and senators paid per day of service?
(a) $4.
(b) $6.
(c) $5.
(d) $7.

2. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?
(a) Theodore Sedgewick.
(b) Edward Everett.
(c) Micheal Chevalier.
(d) Francis Grund.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?

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

3. Who said America was "just emerging from the rude unpolished condition of an infant country"?

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

5. Before the revolution, what was labor associated with?

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

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

4. How did the numerous bankruptcies and financial collapses of the 1790s contribute to the democratization of America?

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

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

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

8. 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."

9. 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?

10. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

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