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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?
(a) American.
(b) Whig.
(c) Republican.
(d) Writer.

3. How many words did the Report on the Public Credit contain?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. How long did it take Hamilton to write the Report on Public Credit?
(a) Three Weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) One year.
(d) One night.

5. When did Hamilton die?
(a) Two weeks later, July 25, 1804.
(b) Immediately.
(c) A year later, in a boating accident.
(d) The next day, July 12, 1804.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did critics of the Constitution see that document?

2. What is a hair-trigger?

3. Why was there a dispute about who won the 1800 Presidential Election?

4. What, in the author's opinion, is the main mystery about the duel?

5. What was Aaron Burr's official title in the USA government?

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