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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 year was the Continental Congress?
2. Where was the first county fair held?
3. What was the population of America in 1810?
4. What did John Adams consider to be the main mark of a gentleman?
5. In 1774 Philadelphia, what was the Philadelphia Committee of Nineteen?
Short Essay Questions
1. By the end of the 18th century, what was the source of the American aristocracy's downfall?
2. How did early Americans' views of the government change after the Revolution?
3. 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?
4. 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."
5. What was the reason for the American 'economic miracle' of the 19th century?
6. In colonial America, how did the meaning of the word civility change in the last half of the 18th century?
7. Why did American office holders from 1776 on urge their republican governments to not only pay salaries but to keep raising them?
8. What influence did George Washington exert at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?
9. How did the numerous bankruptcies and financial collapses of the 1790s contribute to the democratization of America?
10. How was liberalism measured during the Enlightenment?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast how English aristocrats dominated and sustained their localities with how American aristocrats related to their localities.
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 vertical structure of society under the monarchy to the envisioned horizontal structure that would result from the revolution.
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