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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author consider the years of 1787-1788 for America?
(a) The revolutionary war.
(b) The golden years.
(c) The war between the states.
(d) The founding movement that established American nationhood.

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

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

4. What form of government was initiated by the American Revolution?
(a) Communism.
(b) Marxist and socialist.
(c) Representative government based popular sovreignty and some form of market economy fueled by the energies of individual citizens.
(d) Feudal system governed by kings, queens and lords.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What country did America look to for guidance on how to create their new republic?

(see the answer key)

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