Correct. The answer is b. This song, written in 1768, emphasized Americans’ rights as British citizens and stressed the injustice of Britain’s recent efforts to extract tax revenue from the colonists. It aimed to unite Americans around the cause of unfair taxation.

Incorrect. The answer is b. This song, written in 1768, emphasized Americans’ rights as British citizens and stressed the injustice of Britain’s recent efforts to extract tax revenue from the colonists. It aimed to unite Americans around the cause of unfair taxation.

Correct. The answer is c. De Crèvecoeur wrote, “Some few towns excepted, we are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West Florida. We are a people of cultivators, scattered over an immense territory, communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken banks of mild government, all respecting the laws, without dreading their power, because they are equitable. We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself.” His description corresponds closely to Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an American republic founded on a population of independent small farmers.

Incorrect. The answer is c. De Crèvecoeur wrote, “Some few towns excepted, we are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West Florida. We are a people of cultivators, scattered over an immense territory, communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken banks of mild government, all respecting the laws, without dreading their power, because they are equitable. We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself.” His description corresponds closely to Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an American republic founded on a population of independent small farmers.

Correct. The answer is b. In the same era that Americans began to question such time-honored conventions as aristocracy and monarchy, Judith Sargent Murray published this essay to question the assumption that women were naturally inferior to men. She argues in this essay that women’s inferiority came from social and cultural practices, not biology.

Incorrect. The answer is b. In the same era that Americans began to question such time-honored conventions as aristocracy and monarchy, Judith Sargent Murray published this essay to question the assumption that women were naturally inferior to men. She argues in this essay that women’s inferiority came from social and cultural practices, not biology.

Correct. The answer is b. Washington’s “Farewell Address” warns Americans about the potential threats to the nation posed by factions and foreign entanglements and suggests that these might be avoided if citizens and political leaders alike place the interests of the United States above all others.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Washington’s “Farewell Address” warns Americans about the potential threats to the nation posed by factions and foreign entanglements and suggests that these might be avoided if citizens and political leaders alike place the interests of the United States above all others.

Correct. The answer is c. For a historian, Margaret Van Horn Dwight’s journal would provide the most useful evidence and information about an elite New England woman’s perspective on Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania. It would also give a historian some insight into the experiences and practices of Pennsylvania Dutch settlers, but only as they were filtered through Dwight’s eyes.

Incorrect. The answer is c. For a historian, Margaret Van Horn Dwight’s journal would provide the most useful evidence and information about an elite New England woman’s perspective on Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania. It would also give a historian some insight into the experiences and practices of Pennsylvania Dutch settlers, but only as they were filtered through Dwight’s eyes.

Correct. The answer is b. Unlike many observers, such as de Crèvecoeur and others who emphasized the independence and virtue of the American citizenry, Flint viewed the Americans who attended this camp meeting on the frontier as impressionable people who were too easily manipulated by charismatic preachers.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Unlike many observers, such as de Crèvecoeur and others who emphasized the independence and virtue of the American citizenry, Flint viewed the Americans who attended this camp meeting on the frontier as impressionable people who were too easily manipulated by charismatic preachers.