Language and Literature

In his reply to a letter from Abigail Adams, her husband John's list of groups which should be kept subordinate in the social hierarchy include each of the following EXCEPT...

• Indians

• Black people

• women

• apprentices

• children

The work of Phillis Wheatley was devalued by ...

• Benjamin Franklin.

• Alexander Hamilton.

• David Walker.

• Thomas Jefferson.

• Philip Freneau.

Hamilton states that much opposition to the constitution will arise from preconceived jealousies and fear. He characterizes this as ...

• selfish.

• greedy.

• blameless.

• obstinate.

• foolish.

James Madison asserts that social classes are indicated by each of the following EXCEPT ...

• landed interests.

• mercantile interests.

• religious interests.

• manufacturing interests.

• moneyed intereests.

David Walker states that the most unmerciful, cruel, and avaricious grouping of whites was that of ...

• Greeks.

• Romans.

• Spanish.

• heathens.

• Christians.

In Federalist "Number One," Hamilton states that he proposes in his essays to discuss each of the following EXCEPT ...

• necessity of the union to political prosperity.

• insufficiency of the present confederation of colonies.

• security of liberty and property.

• security of religious freedom.

• conformity to the principles of republican government.

Washington Irving writes that a modern tourist travelling pencil in hand is ...

• an anachronism.

• fashionable.

• unencumbered.

• comical.

• a curiosity.

David Walker's appeal ends on a note of ...

• despair.

• outrage.

• neutrality.

• warning.

• optimism.

Alexander Hamilton feels that failure to ratify the constitution will be a misfortune to ...

• New York.

• New England.

• all thirteen colonies.

• the British Empire.

• mankind.

Abigail Adams offers to contribute to the military cause by forwarding to her husband John a manuscript detailing ...

• distributions of British troops in Boston.

• gunpowder measure for weaponry.

• places where food supplies have been cached.

• empty houses which could be occupied by Revolutionary fighters.

• latest movements of British ships.