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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one significance of the debate in 1790 over the Quaker petitions?

2. Who was Talleyrand?

3. What did Adams do about the French piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean?

4. When did George Washington die?

5. Are the terms "slavery", "slaves", or "Negroes" used in the Constitution of the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the main difference between the Jefferson/Adams friendship and the Jefferson/Madison friendship?

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

4. Why was Adams distrustful of his own cabinet?

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

6. How did George Washington behave with regard to slavery?

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

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

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

10. Why were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson at the top of everyone's list as possible replacements for Washington as President?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Catiline, and how did Aaron Burr deserve (or fail to deserve) Hamilton's accusation that Burr was the Catiline of America?

Essay Topic 2

What do you believe is the greatest lesson to be derived from this work? Did the book change your understanding of the time following the Revolutionary War and its importance to the way America has evolved? Explain in detail.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the marriage and partnership between Abigail and John Adams. Are there any historic comparisons, i.e., Bill and Hillary Clinton or Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt? In your opinion, should a man of such power depend on the input of his wife for decisions?

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