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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said America, "hath a blank sheet to write upon"?

2. Who believed that each individual was responsible for his or her eternal salvation or damnation?

3. When did the first American Congress meet?

4. What was the most radical ideology initiated by the Revolution?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?

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

4. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?

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

6. 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?

7. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?

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

9. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What considerations and decisions by others and George Washington, himself, led to Washington's nomination to be President?

Essay Topic 2

How was the paternal, face-to-face nature of early colonial American society demonstrated by Henry Laurens' acts during the Stamp Act riot in 1765? What specifically did he do and what was the reaction of the rioters? How did the outcome reveal the intact hierarchical structure?

Essay Topic 3

How did the American Revolution change the American people? Specifically, what is the difference between a person who is subject to a monarch and one who is a citizen in a republican nation?

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