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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 wrote the book "The Patriots"?
2. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?
3. Who wrote "Common Sense"?
4. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?
5. What contributed to America's economic troubles in the 1780s?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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."
2. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
3. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?
4. Why were the American gentry alarmed at the desire of the common people to share in the conduct of the government?
5. 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?
6. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?
7. 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?
8. What was the Constitution of 1787 suppose to mitigate?
9. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?
10. What social conditions which normally precipitate a revolution were absent during the American Revolution?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Contrast American competition for public office with that kind of competition in England. What about the new American government led to the differences? How did political parties exacerbate the competition? How did politicians' ultimate view of office differ from the British view of office?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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