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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 drew up the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
2. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?
3. What sail maker spoke for all industrious working men in 1797?
4. What did Leverett Saltonstall call "the great bond of civil society"?
5. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?
2. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
3. By the end of the 18th century, what was the source of the American aristocracy's downfall?
4. 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?
5. 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."
6. How did the opinion of a traditional gentleman's assumption of leisure change towards the end of the 18th century?
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. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?
9. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.
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