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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. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?

2. When was the Virgina constitution written?

3. When did Americans begin to call for the boycotting of British goods?

4. Who wrote "The Religion of Nature Delineated"?

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

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. What influence did George Washington exert at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?

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

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

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

6. 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."

7. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?

8. 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?

9. What did individual independence mean to revolutionaries?

10. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the beginning of the 19th century, what massive economic changes took place that affected the mind and character of Americans? Include technology, transportation, and commerce in your explanation.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast how English aristocrats dominated and sustained their localities with how American aristocrats related to their localities.

Essay Topic 3

Thomas Hutchinson, a colonial magistrate and the royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the Boston Tea Party, was one of the most learned and refined men in all of North America. By the early 1770s he was thoroughly hated by the colonists. Explain his colonial history until just before the Revolution and enumerate the reasons he was so hated and his reactions to those who hated him.

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