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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 about Americans that their "universal roar is Commerce"?
2. How much were the first congressmen and senators paid per day of service?
3. Whose Massachusetts family had done missionary work among the Indians?
4. How many Boston merchants were named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778?
5. What defined modern politicians as "persons who have little, if any regard for the welfare of the republic unless immediately connected with . . . their own private pursuits"?
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. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?
4. 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?
5. Why were the American gentry alarmed at the desire of the common people to share in the conduct of the government?
6. According to John Toland, what is the difference between a man who is free and one who is dependent?
7. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
8. What was hoped to replace fear and favor in enlightened colonial American society? How would the replacement be manifested?
9. 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."
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how family networks in the colonies were used in politics. Cite the details of one specific family from the book and give descriptions of the network that generally apply.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What considerations and decisions by others and George Washington, himself, led to Washington's nomination to be President?
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