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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 believed that each individual was responsible for his or her eternal salvation or damnation?
2. What was democracy considered in the 18th century?
3. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?
4. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?
5. How much were the first congressmen and senators paid per day of service?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to John Toland, what is the difference between a man who is free and one who is dependent?
3. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
4. What did the American westward movement of the early 19th century do to traditional forms of social organization?
5. How did the numerous bankruptcies and financial collapses of the 1790s contribute to the democratization of America?
6. On what precept was freemasonry organized?
7. By the end of the 18th century, what was the source of the American aristocracy's downfall?
8. How did the opinion of a traditional gentleman's assumption of leisure change towards the end of the 18th century?
9. What social conditions which normally precipitate a revolution were absent during the American Revolution?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Samuel Blodget taught that common economic interest was the best adhesive a society could have. Explain Blodget's four 'social ties' and how they related to 19th century American economy.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast how English aristocrats dominated and sustained their localities with how American aristocrats related to their localities.
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