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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 one of the concerns shared by pro-slavery and abolitionist factions?
(a) Where the slaves would go once freed.
(b) How the navy would handle the mass exodus.
(c) Riots.
(d) Famine.

2. Who did Adams appoint as American Minister to Prussia?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Aaron Burr.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) His son, John Quincy Adams.

3. What was Washington's attitude towards America's involvement in European conflict?
(a) He did not address this problem at any point in his career.
(b) He recommended America always take the side of the English.
(c) He recommended neutrality.
(d) He recommended America always take the side of the French.

4. What famous American endorsed this petition?
(a) Patrick Henry.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) John Paul Jones.

5. How did John and Abigail Adams stay in touch while he was in Philadelphia?
(a) They exchanged e-mails.
(b) They spoke on the telephone daily.
(c) They wrote each other letters two or three times per week..
(d) John went home for the weekends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Talleyrand?

2. Based upon his farewell address and most recent letters to the states, where did Washington believe America's destiny lay?

3. Which state, at the time of the debate, had the largest free-black population?

4. Who was America's first legend?

5. What was the federal budget of 1790?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did James Madison, statesman from Virginia, treat the subject of slavery?

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

3. Describe the change in Jefferson's attitude towards Washington that began with the Whiskey Rebellion.

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

5. Why was Washington's retirement from public office so important to history?

6. How did Benjamin Franklin contribute to the debates over slavery?

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

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

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

10. Why was Adams distrustful of his own cabinet?

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