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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Alexander Hamilton born?
(a) Delhi, India.
(b) Honolulu, Hawaii.
(c) New Orleans, LA.
(d) Island of Nevis, West Indies.

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

3. How many residents of the new republic were slaves?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 58.
(c) Nearly 700,000.
(d) Three million.

4. What danger awaited the main participants in the American Revolution?
(a) Substantial fines.
(b) Death.
(c) Three years in prison.
(d) Severe damage to their credit.

5. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?
(a) That the colonies would never number more than twenty.
(b) That it would replace the constituiton.
(c) That a centralized political power that operated in a faraway place could not govern citizens..
(d) That the Confederate States of America should be made to exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. An affair of honor should involve only what type of charges?

2. When did Hamilton die?

3. What did Adams do about the French piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean?

4. How was Jay's Treaty received in the public?

5. What was Washington's attitude towards America's involvement in European conflict?

(see the answer key)

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