Chapter 7

Quiz for Document 7-2: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)

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Question 1

In Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson writes, “Dependance [sic] begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances: but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.” With these words, Jefferson is referring to the dangers posed to republicanism by which of the following groups?

Question 2

What, according to Jefferson, led to the growth of manufacturing in European countries?

Question 3

How does Jefferson describe the nature of large cities?

Question 4

The economic relationship between Europe and the United States that Jefferson considers most desirable would best be described by the term