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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the primary form of communication in America during 1787-89?
(a) Telephone calls.
(b) Handwritten letters.
(c) Western Union Telegrams.
(d) Television messages.

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

3. What heritages were represented in the Seal of the United States designed by Adams, Franklin and Jefferson?
(a) Italian, English, Haitian and Filipino.
(b) English, Scottish, Irish, French, German and Dutch.
(c) English only.
(d) English, German, and Dutch.

4. What did George Washington do to quell the Whiskey Rebellion?
(a) He sent Thomas Jefferson to negotiate.
(b) He sent the militia to Pennsylvania.
(c) He paid the ransom.
(d) He wrote a letter to the Philadelphia newspaper.

5. Which two Representatives reacted first to this petition?
(a) Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
(b) Ben Franklin and James Madison.
(c) James Jackson and William Loughton Smith.
(d) Raymond Burr and Michael Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words did the Report on the Public Credit contain?

2. Who was Catiline?

3. What positions had Alexander Hamilton held in the US government?

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

5. What did Representative John Page say was the real threat of the petition?

(see the answer key)

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