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

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 a centralized political power that operated in a faraway place could not govern citizens..
(c) That it would replace the constituiton.
(d) That the Confederate States of America should be made to exist.

2. What rank in the military did Aaron Burr attain during the American Revolution?
(a) General.
(b) Colonel.
(c) Private.
(d) Captain.

3. Which state did Madison believe would suffer the most injustice under assumption?
(a) Virginia.
(b) New York.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Texas.

4. Who was Catiline?
(a) A romantic character in a popular novel, whose life was destroyed by a duel.
(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 large ship commissioned by Washington to be used to sail along the coast of the colonies and recruit soldiers.

5. What positions had Alexander Hamilton held in the US government?
(a) Secretaries of Education and Homeland Security.
(b) Vice President and Secretary of State.
(c) Vice President and White House Presss Secretary.
(d) Washington's Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Treasury.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the author, how did the creation of a separate American nation occur?

5. How did Hamilton propose to handle the debts of the thirteen states?

(see the answer key)

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