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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?
(a) Communisim and Democracy.
(b) Pure Republicanism and the Jeffersonian interpretations.
(c) Tories and Whigs.
(d) Washington and Adams.

2. According to the author, how did the creation of a separate American nation occur?
(a) With the approval of the British rules.
(b) Gradually rather than suddenly.
(c) Suddenly rather than gradually.
(d) Over a period of 200 years.

3. In Jefferson's opinion, how long should the laws of this generation stay in effect?
(a) About twenty years.
(b) Forever.
(c) Over two hundred years.
(d) About six weeks.

4. At whose home was the dinner held?
(a) The White House.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Aaron Burr.

5. Which state, at the time of the debate, had the largest slave population?
(a) New York.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sites were being considered for the new permanent capital of the United States?

2. How many other presidents have served as long as Washington did as the head of our nation?

3. How many colonies were present at the birth of the new nation of the United States?

4. What was the date of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

5. Which state did Madison believe would suffer the most injustice under assumption?

(see the answer key)

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