Group #1 (Required)

“The most powerful source of the workingman’s revival was the simple, coercive fact that wage earners worked
for men who insisted on seeing them in church… while it varied between occupations, the relation between
occupational advancement and membership in a church was strong throughout the population… by dispensing
and withholding patronage, Christian entrepreneurs regulated the membership of their own class, and to a
large extent of the community as a whole. Conversion and abstinence from strong drink became crucial
economic credentials. For membership in a church and participation in its crusades put a man into the
community in which economic decisions were made, and at a time when religious criteria dominated those
choices.”
● Paul Johnson, ​A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals…, ​1979 From “Pentecost” and
“Christian Soldiers” in ​A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York,
1815-1937​.

“[The] expansion of evangelical Christianity did not proceed primarily from the nimble response of religious
elites meeting the challenge before them. Rather, Christianity was effectively reshaped by common people who
molded it in their own image and who threw themselves into expanding its influence. Increasingly assertive
common people wanted their leaders unpretentious, their doctrines self-evident and down-to-earth, their music
lively and singable, and their churches in local hands. It was this upsurge of democratic hope that characterized
so many religious cultures in the early republic.

● Nathan O. Hatch, ​The Democratization of American Christianity​ (1989)

A. Briefly explain ONE major similarity between Johnson and Hatch's historical interpretation of the influence of
Christianity on the American landscape in the early to mid 19th century.
B. Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period 1800 to 1860 that is not explicitly
mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Johnson's interpretation.
C. Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period 1800 to 1860 that is not explicitly
mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Hatch's interpretation.

Group #2 (Required)
"As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the
revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The
revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen
years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington."

Former President John Adams to former President Thomas Jefferson,

August 1815

"There is nothing more common than to confound the terms of the American Revolution with those of the late
American war. The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. On
the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our
new forms of government; and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens, for these forms of
government, after they are established and brought to perfection."

Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to the Continental Congress, January
1787

A. Briefly describe ONE significant difference between Adams' understanding and Rush's understanding of the
American Revolution.
B. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period between 1760 and 1800
could be used to support Adams' interpretation.
C. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period between 1760 and 1800
could be used to support Rush's interpretation.

Choose one of the following SAQs below as your third SAQ to answer:

Group #3
A. Briefly explain the reasons why the British issued the Proclamation of 1763?
B. Briefly explain why the colonists objected to the Proclamation.
C. Briefly explain how effective the Proclamation was.

Group #4
A. Briefly explain how ONE of the following best supports the statement that "the United States Constitution is a
bundle of compromises." Provide at least ONE piece of evidence to support your explanation.
--the office of the presidency
--the system of representation
--the institution of slavery
B. Briefly explain a criticism of ONE of the compromises cited above.
C. Identify and briefly explain the role played by an individual at the Constitutional Convention in bringing about
ONE of the compromises mentioned above or a compromise not mentioned.

Group #5
A. Briefly explain the British view of how the Seven Years' War fundamentally changed the relationship
between Britain and its American colonies.
B. Briefly explain the colonial view as a result of the war.
C. Briefly describe an initial reaction taken as a result of the changing views by either the British or American
colonists.

Group #6
Use the ​following cartoon​ to answer A, B, C
A. Briefly explain the historical context of this flag in May of 1754?

B. Contrast the historical context of 1754 with the historical context of 1775 using the same flag. How does the
meaning of the flag change?

C. Briefly explain how another piece of propaganda was used to motivate the American colonists to rebel
against the British empire between 1763 - 1776?