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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 role did Washington accept at the convention in #129?
(a) Chancellor.
(b) President.
(c) Ambassador.
(d) Governor.

2. Which of the following was NOT an issue Washington tended to during most of 1782?
(a) Getting pay for soldiers.
(b) Receiving accolades for his war service.
(c) Approving war monuments.
(d) The fate of British prisoners.

3. Why did many townspeople where Washington's army camped refuse to give the soldiers food and clothing?
(a) They didn't know they were needed.
(b) They had none to spare.
(c) They could sell to the British and make a profit.
(d) They were afraid the British would hang them.

4. General William Howe was replaced by whom after word of the French treat with the Americans?
(a) General Henry Fairfax.
(b) General William Burgoyne.
(c) General James Lattimore.
(d) General Henry Clinton.

5. In the period following the Revolutionary War, there began a string of rebellions in which state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Maine.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. The overwhelming problem Washington had to deal with in the Summer of 1794 was a rebellion in Virginia and Pennsylvania against ____________________.

2. What did Washington do in an attempt to preserve his image for prosperity?

3. Alexander Hamilton delivered the Report on Public Credit that included his assertion that the federal government should take on the states' debts ________________________.

4. Who did Washington appoint as his Secretary of State?

5. Washington struggled all his life with ________________ problems.

Short Essay Questions

1. What impression about himself was Washington very careful about preserving?

2. For what reason did Washington have to distance himself from the Society of Cincinnati?

3. What was the Society of the Cincinnati?

4. Why was the Winter of 1779 similar to the one spent at Valley Forge for Washington and his men?

5. What did Washington do after he took the oath of office as president?

6. How did Washington manage through his discomfort of having to associate with strangers as President?

7. What did General Charles Lee do that put Washington's men into the heat of battle and for which Lee later faced a court martial?

8. Although they remained friends after the war, what point did Washington and Lafayette disagree on?

9. When did Washington leave the office of President and return to Mount Vernon as a private citizen?

10. What did Benedict Arnold do that was a betrayal to the new country?

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