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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mental Confusion, Politics at Sunset, Washington and Slavery and Death of a Hero.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What document, written by Thomas Paine, renewed patriotic enthusiasm?
(a) Common Sense.
(b) U.S. Constitution.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Declaration of Independence.

2. What did Washington see the national capital as?
(a) A place to protest.
(b) A place to physically fight.
(c) A place to argue.
(d) A place to reconcile disagreements.

3. What group did the Indians hate the most in 1783?
(a) The United States.
(b) Spanish Louisiana.
(c) The French.
(d) British Canada.

4. What cash crop did Washington rely on for the most profit?
(a) Corn.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Sugar cane.
(d) Beans.

5. Who became the new Attorney General after the death of William Bradford?
(a) Thomas Chase.
(b) James McHenry.
(c) Charles Lee.
(d) Oliver Ellsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Washington was six, his family moved to which city?

2. How many pounds of sterling did Washington loose during the war?

3. Who objected to Washington's participation in military activities?

4. Which city became the temporary capitol of the United States?

5. How many French warships appeared in the New York Harbor in 1793?

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