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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what event brought the longstanding rivalry between Burr and Hamilton to a head?
(a) The death of Hamilton's son, Philip.
(b) A horse race in which both men had substantial financial risk.
(c) The vote between Burr and Jefferson for President in 1800/01.
(d) The discovery of an affair between Hamilton and Burr's wife.

2. Who was Catiline?
(a) A large ship commissioned by Washington to be used to sail along the coast of the colonies and recruit soldiers.
(b) A treachorous and degenerate character whose scheming nearly destroyed the Roman Republic.
(c) A woman whose rhetoric and feiry speeches nearly destroyed the American Republic's economic system.
(d) A romantic character in a popular novel, whose life was destroyed by a duel.

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

4. How many people lived in the United States of America at its beginning?
(a) 453.
(b) Five Hundred Thousand.
(c) Four Million.
(d) Two Hundred MIllion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Adams ask his wife to save for history?

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

3. What was the name of Hamilton's new country house?

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

5. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?

(see the answer key)

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