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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 many Boston merchants were named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778?
(a) 44.
(b) 46.
(c) 47.
(d) 45.

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

3. When did the first American Congress meet?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1787.

4. Who wrote "The Religion of Nature Delineated"?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) William Wollaston.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Lord Chesterfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the book "The Idle Man"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

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

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

4. 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."

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

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

7. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?

8. On what precept was freemasonry organized?

9. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?

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

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