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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. What did Leverett Saltonstall call "the great bond of civil society"?

2. Who said, "We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears"?

3. Who strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?

4. Who believed progress and social harmony would result from the enlightened conclusion of the new American society?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the life and leisure of the aristocracy to the life and labor of the common people in colonial America before the revolution.

Essay Topic 3

The monarchy's social cement of family, force, patronage, and dependence had made it powerful. After the revolution, what new social adhesive in colonial America replaced the monarchy? How was this replacement accomplished?

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