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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what action would have ended the move for American Independence?
(a) Better use of horses by either army.
(b) British commanders prosecuting the war more vigorously.
(c) Spain's entry into the war on the side of America.
(d) The invention of the atomic bomb.

2. At the time of the American Revolution, what was the most powerful military force in the world?
(a) Spanish Armada.
(b) Chinese Red Guard.
(c) British army and navy.
(d) Taliban.

3. What did John Adams see as the paradox facing the new republic?
(a) Legislating for 20 or 30 states, when all of the known legislative history had been for just one state.
(b) The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.
(c) The new title of the republic versus its goals.
(d) Tories versus Whigs.

4. What was the primary form of communication in America during 1787-89?
(a) Handwritten letters.
(b) Television messages.
(c) Western Union Telegrams.
(d) Telephone calls.

5. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?
(a) That it would replace the constituiton.
(b) That the colonies would never number more than twenty.
(c) That the Confederate States of America should be made to exist.
(d) That a centralized political power that operated in a faraway place could not govern citizens..

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Adams ask his wife to save for history?

2. How many delegates were at the Constitutional Convention?

3. How many residents of the new republic were slaves?

4. What was Thomas Paine referring to when he said an island could not rule a continent?

5. How many colonies were present at the birth of the new nation of the United States?

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