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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the total amount of debt the United States was facing in 1790?
(a) 77.1 million dollars.
(b) 355 million dollars.
(c) 25.3 million dollars.
(d) 4.5 thousand dollars.

2. What contingent did Madison represent in this issue?
(a) The pro-life movement.
(b) The Southern States.
(c) The Republican majority.
(d) The Confederates.

3. An affair of honor should involve only what type of charges?
(a) Political.
(b) Financial.
(c) Adulterous.
(d) Personal.

4. How many total shots were fired at the duel?
(a) Two, both by Burr.
(b) Six, three by each man.
(c) Two, one by each man.
(d) Two, both by Hamilton.

5. Burr was blocked by Hamilton in his quest to be come the American minister to what country?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Mexico.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What issue was discussed by the Constitutional Congress but specifically excluded from the final documents?

2. Who did Madison feel would be exploited and cheated as a result of Hamilton's plan?

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

4. At the time of the American Revolution, what was the most powerful military force in the world?

5. What was the name of the report Hamilton wrote that started the need for this compromise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the duel between Burr and Hamilton effectively put a stop to dueling being accepted as a proper form of resolving arguments in the American Republic?

2. Why do historians refer to this time in the course of American history as The Age of Passion?

3. Why do you think the author named the Preface "The Generation"?

4. What is different about the generation of leaders and their methods of communicating and the present day methods?

5. What roles did the seconds (Pendleton and Van Ness) have in the days before the duel? Describe how each one played out these roles, and how they handled their roles after the duel.

6. Why was Virginia so important to the decisions of this time?

7. Why was Madison so opposed to Hamilton's suggestion that the debts of the states be assumed by the federal government?

8. Describe the reputations of Burr and Hamilton. What personality traits led them to end up in a duel?

9. Describe what is known about the duel between Burr and Hamilton

10. How does the author differ from Lincoln's statement that America was founded on a proposition written by Jefferson in 1776?

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