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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Code Duello?
(a) The newspaper that first reported the results of the duel.
(b) The name given to the bullet that killed Hamilton.
(c) The name Burr gave his gun.
(d) The name of the recognized law of honor regarding duels.

2. What was Thomas Paine referring to when he said an island could not rule a continent?
(a) Madascar ruling Africa.
(b) Britian continuing to rule over India.
(c) Hawaii ruling California.
(d) Britain continuing to rule over North America.

3. Why did the duel take place in such an out of the way location?
(a) Because it was near a hospital.
(b) Because it is a very noisy activity.
(c) Dueling was illegal in the United States.
(d) To avoid accidental shooting of passersby.

4. What did Representative John Page say was the real threat of the petition?
(a) Civil War.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Financial Ruin.
(d) Silence.

5. Who was considered to be the first President of the United States, almost unanimously by its people?
(a) Ben Franklin.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?

2. How many people lived in the United States of America at its beginning?

3. What does the author consider the years of 1787-1788 for America?

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

5. In what city did this dinner take place?

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