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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. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?
2. What was the population of America in 1810?
3. Who headed the revolutionary committee in Savannah, Georgia when the Revolution began?
4. Whose play "Cato" taught George Washington what it meant to be liberal and virtuous?
5. Who said, "the attracting force of universal love" existed in all people?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to John Toland, what is the difference between a man who is free and one who is dependent?
2. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?
3. 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?
4. In colonial America, how did the meaning of the word civility change in the last half of the 18th century?
5. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?
6. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
7. 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?
8. Why have historians criticized John Hancock?
9. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?
10. On what precept was freemasonry organized?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What considerations and decisions by others and George Washington, himself, led to Washington's nomination to be President?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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