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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?
(a) Pure Republicanism and the Jeffersonian interpretations.
(b) Washington and Adams.
(c) Tories and Whigs.
(d) Communisim and Democracy.

2. What positions had Alexander Hamilton held in the US government?
(a) Washington's Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Treasury.
(b) Secretaries of Education and Homeland Security.
(c) Vice President and Secretary of State.
(d) Vice President and White House Presss Secretary.

3. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?
(a) Writer.
(b) American.
(c) Whig.
(d) Republican.

4. Why did the framers of the Constitution avoid the issue of slavery?
(a) None of the framers brought the issue to the attention of the others.
(b) They believed the issue would prevent the states from forming a country.
(c) They forgot about it.
(d) They did not believe the issue was important enough to be included.

5. Who did Madison feel would be exploited and cheated as a result of Hamilton's plan?
(a) Revolutionary War veterans.
(b) Wives and families of ex-presidents.
(c) Congress.
(d) Civil War veterans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medical problem had Jefferson experienced for over a month before the dinner?

2. Burr was blocked by Hamilton in his quest to be come the American minister to what country?

3. What is one significance of the debate in 1790 over the Quaker petitions?

4. How many colonies were present at the birth of the new nation of the United States?

5. Who was Catiline?

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