WorksheetsUnit 2_Emerging Nation Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following author's wrote about his plan to achieve moral perfection?
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Hur
Which of the following is true of Thomas Paine's works. (select 2)
He wrote a poem written to celebrate how the American flag kept flying over Fort McHenry during an attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812.
He wrote a document written to motivate weary troops in their fight for American independence.
He wrote the document that officially severed ties between the colonies and Great Britain. It gives the rationales for seeking independence.
He wrote a pamphlet that passionately argued why the colonies needed to declare independence from Great Britain.
Which author wrote about their own personal experience of a slave's harrowing voyage across the Atlantic Ocean through the Middle Passage.
Olaudah Equiano
Phillis Wheatley
Francis Scott Key
Amistad
How would you describe Ben Franklin's character based off what you read in his autobiography?
Rebellious
Insensitive
Resolute
Hilarious
Which quote from his autobiography shows Benjamin Franklin's value of determination?
"It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into" (27).
"In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it" (31).
"[A] benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance" (31).
[My brother] was taken up, censured, and imprisoned for a month" (26).
How does Franklin define the virtue of Industry?
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Which of the following quotes contains a metaphor used in Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
"I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connexion with Great Britain, that the same connexion is necessary towards her future happiness" (35).
"This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster" (36).
"I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to shew, a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge, not a single advantage is derived." (36).
"Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island." (38).
Which of the following quotes demonstrates a counter-argument from Paine's Common Sense?
Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind" (38).
"I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert, that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat; or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty" (36).
Which of the following enlightenment values do both Paine and Franklin have in common according to the texts we read in Unit 1?
Both writers apply themselves to pursue scientific progress
Both writers believe in individualism. That individuals can improve themselves and make a better society through applying logic to human systems.
Both author's argue for an economic system involving the invisible hand to guide and correct the economy.
Both author's describe significant events in their childhood that shaped their adult lives.
In the following quote from American Crisis, what does the underlined word mean?
"I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day' "(41).
One who supported independence from the British monarchy
One who was loyal to the British monarchy and did not support the colonies in pursuing separation from England, and status as a sovereign nation.
What lines support the theme of Phillis Wheatley's poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America", that people of all colors can be redeemed by God?
"Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land / Taught my benighted soul to understand" (lines 1-2)
"That there's a God and Savior too / Once I redemption neither sought nor knew" (line 3-4)
"Some view our sabled race with scornful eye, / 'Their color is a diabolic die.'" (lines 5-6)
"Remember Christian, Negros, black as Cain / May be refined and join the angelic train." (lines 7-8)
What do the words absolute Despotism mean as they are used in paragraph 2 of The Declaration of Independence?
Here is the sentence from paragraph 2 for your reference:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
total commitment to a cause
protest in times of war
complete authoritarian rule
utter moral depravity and wickedness
