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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 suggestion did George Washington want in the Farewell Address, but Hamilton talked him out of?
(a) Establishment of a national university in the capital city.
(b) Establishment of the Internal Revenue Service.
(c) Establishment of a large obelisk as a monument to him in the capital city.
(d) National health care.

2. What were some of the reasons the author believes led to Washington's decision to retire from political life?
(a) Age, new wife, obligations to his children.
(b) Opportunty to serve on coporate boards, age, financial.
(c) Age, health and weary of politics.
(d) Finances, a new career, and the opportunty to move back to England.

3. In the author's opinion, what was the direct result of the House's refusal to deal with the subject of slavery in 1790?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Whiskey Rebellion.
(c) The Boston Massacre.
(d) World War I.

4. What was written into the US Constitution that directly affected this petition?
(a) Constitution states that Congress cannot consider any petitions during February.
(b) The Constitution does not recognize Quakers as an authorized religion.
(c) Congress cannot hear any petitions regarding any subject.
(d) Constitution prohibited Congress from passing any law regarding the slave trade until 1808.

5. How did the public obtain the Farewell Address?
(a) It was in the Congressional Record.
(b) It was sent out in the mail to all residents.
(c) It was published in all newspapers.
(d) It was on the radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the House's vote on referring the petition to a committee?

2. What did Representative Jackson base his pro-slavery position upon?

3. Which states included a law in their state constitutions that made slavery illegal?

4. Who collaborated with George Washington on his Farewell Address?

5. Why did the framers of the Constitution avoid the issue of slavery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Adams make an ineffective Vice President to Washington?

2. Why did the Federalist party disappear and the Republican party remain?

3. How did the individual states handle these issues when the Federal Government remained silent on the subject of slavery? Give examples.

4. How serious would it have been if South Carolina and Georgia seceded from the Union in 1790?

5. Discuss in detail the reasons Washington decided to retire from public office.

6. Why was Jefferson so enamored with the French Revolution?

7. What was the difference in the way Washington and Jefferson defined the role of America in the affairs of other countries?

8. Why was the marriage between John and Abigail Adams so unusual?

9. How did these debates contribute to the knowledge of this issue in our country?

10. Why did Washington turn away requests that he become a king of the new republic?

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