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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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..

3. What do some historians call the politics and events of the 1790s in America?
(a) The Age of Passion.
(b) The Bronze Age.
(c) The Ice Age.
(d) The Renaissance.

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

5. What issue was discussed by the Constitutional Congress but specifically excluded from the final documents?
(a) Telecommunications.
(b) Secret Service.
(c) Price of Postage.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the author, what action would have ended the move for American Independence?

5. In its most simple terms, how did the Constitutional Convention formulate its documents?

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