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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 was Dr. Rush's view of the estrangement of Adams and Jefferson?

2. Why were few letters written between Adams and Jefferson early in their association?

3. How did Jefferson consider Adams' midnight appointments?

4. When was the Consular Convention with France that Jefferson discussed in a letter to Adams?

5. What happened to the letter that Jefferson wrote to congratulate Adams when the election was over, before the results were known?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Dr. Rush and why did he help Adams and Jefferson reconcile their differences?

2. How did the correspondence of 1804 stop?

3. Why did Jefferson write to Adams after the election?

4. How did Jefferson become involved with education in Virginia?

5. When did Adams and Jefferson pass away, and what thoughts did they have about their lives?

6. How did Adams and Jefferson approach political topics in their renewed correspondence?

7. How did Jefferson respond to Adams' analysis of aristocracy, in Chapter 10?

8. According to Jefferson's letters in Chapter 8, what caused him to be angry at Adams?

9. How did Adams and Jefferson find their financial situations later in their lives?

10. How did Adams and Jefferson refer to their illnesses in the 1818 letters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the ways that Jefferson became involved with education, the design that he had for public school systems and universities, and the subjects that he and Adams thought should be taught. Also, provide a comparison of their idea of education and the current educational system of the country.

Essay Topic 2

As diplomats, Adams and Jefferson tried to negotiate an association with Britain and France, with much different results.

1) Describe the intent of the negotiations with Britain and France.

2) Explain the reasons why Britain and France had a different view of their negotiations with Adams and Jefferson.

3) Analyze the effect that France and Britain had on the development of trade and commerce in the United States.

Essay Topic 3

Adams' Defense of the Constitutions of the United States countered the criticisms of the revolutionary new government that was being designed for America.

1) Describe the criticism about the American government that prompted Adams to write Defense of the Constitutions of the United States.

2) Explain the source of the criticism and the possible reasons for it.

3) Analyze three main points that Adams made in Defense of the Constitutions of the United States to support the country's foundation.

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