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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In its most simple terms, how did the Constitutional Convention formulate its documents?
(a) Unknown, all meetings were held in secret and no records were kept.
(b) Through debates, letters, private discussions and presentations at the meetings.
(c) Abigail Adams kep the minutes and published them in their entirety after the convention ended.
(d) All were written by Thomas Jefferson.

3. How many colonies were present at the birth of the new nation of the United States?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty-eight.
(d) Seven.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is the oldest enduring republic in world history?

2. At the time of the American Revolution, who else occupied North America besides the colonists?

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

4. What do some historians call the politics and events of the 1790s in America?

5. What does the author say was a direct result of the new republic's decision to delay the slavery question in the 1780's?

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