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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Constitution of the United States, Hysteria and Responsibility and A Second Constitutional Convention.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city were the Hessian soldiers encamped in 1777?
(a) Yorktown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Trenton.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

3. Which command did Washington allow to become semi-autonomous?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

4. How many years did Washington want military tours of duty to be?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 3 years.

5. Who covered his face in fear that Washington had been killed?
(a) Colonel Richard Fitzgerald.
(b) Lord Cornwallis.
(c) General Howe.
(d) General Greene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the convention scrap after five days of meeting?

2. In December of 1776, Washington's troops crossed which body of water?

3. Which country's influx of military leaders burdened Washington?

4. When did Washington receive a draft of the Declaration of Independence?

5. What neighborhood did Rochambeau's army move to in July 1781?

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