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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 strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?
2. 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"?
3. What eventually became the sole criterion for the political worth of a person?
4. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?
5. Who wrote the book "The Patriots"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?
2. Why were the American gentry alarmed at the desire of the common people to share in the conduct of the government?
3. In colonial America, how did the meaning of the word civility change in the last half of the 18th century?
4. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?
5. On what precept was freemasonry organized?
6. According to John Toland, what is the difference between a man who is free and one who is dependent?
7. 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?
8. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?
9. 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?
10. 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."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The revolutionaries' desire had been to remove all private interests from government, but by the 1790s private interest so pervaded Congress and statehouses that Americans found it almost impossible to conceive of disinterested officials. Using Timothy Ford's example of dealings in South Carolina, explain how special interests replaced the original republican goals of keeping private interests out of the government.
Essay Topic 2
By the early 19th century, how were the productive classes, those people working in a useful occupation, looked upon? How was the definition of work changed from the beginning of the 18th century? What virtue did work now imply?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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