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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Adams see as the paradox facing the new republic?
(a) The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.
(b) Tories versus Whigs.
(c) The new title of the republic versus its goals.
(d) Legislating for 20 or 30 states, when all of the known legislative history had been for just one state.

2. What did John Adams ask his wife to save for history?
(a) All of his letters.
(b) His favorite shoes.
(c) Photos of their children.
(d) The outfit he wore when he was inaugurated.

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

4. What country did America look to for guidance on how to create their new republic?
(a) Burma.
(b) China.
(c) None - the American revolution was the first.
(d) Scotland.

5. What is considered to be the main asset the new republic possessed?
(a) Gold mine in Pennsylvania.
(b) Vast continent of North America, with all its resources.
(c) Good intentions.
(d) British stocks and bonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger awaited the main participants in the American Revolution?

2. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?

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

4. What form of government was initiated by the American Revolution?

5. How many delegates were at the Constitutional Convention?

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