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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people lived in the United States of America at its beginning?
(a) Two Hundred MIllion.
(b) 453.
(c) Five Hundred Thousand.
(d) Four Million.

2. What was one of the concerns shared by pro-slavery and abolitionist factions?
(a) Riots.
(b) How the navy would handle the mass exodus.
(c) Where the slaves would go once freed.
(d) Famine.

3. What did George Washington do to quell the Whiskey Rebellion?
(a) He paid the ransom.
(b) He sent Thomas Jefferson to negotiate.
(c) He wrote a letter to the Philadelphia newspaper.
(d) He sent the militia to Pennsylvania.

4. What was Washington's attitude towards America's involvement in European conflict?
(a) He did not address this problem at any point in his career.
(b) He recommended America always take the side of the French.
(c) He recommended America always take the side of the English.
(d) He recommended neutrality.

5. Even though Jay's Treaty was not popular, what was the main reason it passed into acceptance?
(a) The nation's attention was averted by the Jefferson/Hennings scandal.
(b) The prestige of George Washington.
(c) The dislike of the public for Thomas Jefferson.
(d) It was introduced into Congress late at night and there was not a quorum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, according to the Constitution, does sovreignity in the United States lie?

2. Who were some of Hamilton's better known political enemies?

3. Who was America's first legend?

4. Who was Burr's second in the duel?

5. Where was Hamilton struck by the bullet in the duel?

(see the answer key)

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