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Alexander Hamilton held the following public office: |
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| President |
Secretary of Treasury |
| Secretary of Interior |
Federal Reserve Chairman |
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Alexander Hamilton's portrait appears on the: |
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| $10 bill |
$100 bill |
| $500 bill |
$50 bill |
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During the Revolution, Hamilton led the New York Provincial Artillery Company, which today exists as the First Battalion Fifth Field Artillery based in: |
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| Massachusetts |
New York |
| Kansas |
Texas |
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Hamilton, one of the few founding fathers to be born abroad, was born in: |
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| France |
Nevis |
| Isle of Skye |
Halifax |
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Hamilton helped found the newspaper that became: |
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| The New York Sun |
The New York Post |
| The New York Times |
The New York Herald Tribune |
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Hamilton was called "Bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar" by: |
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| Aaron Burr |
Dolly Madison |
| John Adams |
Thomas Jefferson |
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The famous Burr-Hamilton duel took place in: |
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| Albany, NY |
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Weehawken, NJ |
Greenwich Village, New York City, NY |
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A still-existing financial institution Hamilton helped found in 1784 was: |
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| The New York Stock Exchange |
The Bank of New York |
| The New York Cotton Exchange |
U.S. Trust |
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Alexander Hamilton, an ambitious young immigrant, married which daughter of a wealthy patriot family? |
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| Nancy Randolph |
Elizabeth Schuyler |
| Kitty Livingston |
Peggy Shippen |
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In order to get his financial program through Congress in 1790, Alexander Hamilton made a deal to move the nation's capital from: |
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| New York to Trenton to Philadelphia |
Philadelphia to Washington, DC |
| New York to Philadelphia to Washington, DC |
New York to Annapolis, MD |
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Alexander Hamilton applied to the College of New Jersey, but went to King's College. These are now: |
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| Rutgers and Columbia |
Rutgers and Yale |
| Princeton and Harvard |
Princeton and Columbia |
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In 1793, Alexander Hamilton joined the first board of trustees of the Hamilton Oneida Academy, now known as Hamilton College and located in: |
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| New York City |
Elizabeth, NJ |
| Philadelphia |
Upstate New York |
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Alexander Hamilton served in George Washington's cabinet with: |
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| Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
Henry Knox and James Madison |
| Thomas Jefferson and Henry Knox |
James Madison and Benjamin Franklin |
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Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers, a series of newspaper essays that helped convince a skeptical public to ratify the Constitution, with: |
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| James Madison and Thomas Jefferson |
James Madison and John Jay |
| George Washington and John Jay |
James Madison and William Duer |
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Alexander Hamilton led an infantry charge at the battle of: |
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| Trenton, NJ |
White Plains, NY |
| Yorktown, VA |
Monmouth, NJ |
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Alexander Hamilton's oldest son Philip died: |
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| in the War of 1812 |
in a duel in 1801 |
| of old age in 1861 |
of yellow fever in 1794 |
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Alexander Hamilton's country home can be found in: |
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| The Bronx |
Harlem |
| Yonkers |
Saratoga |
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Hamilton was a founding member of the New York Manumission Society (founded 1785), which campaigned for an end to slavery. The society's entire file of manuscript records, from 1785 to 1849, is located in the: |
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| New York Public Library |
New York Municipal Archives |
| National Archives |
New-York Historical Society |
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Hamilton started an ambitious project to demonstrate America's untapped potential for manufacturing in: |
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| Paterson, NJ |
Lowell, MA |
| Brooklyn, NY |
Philadelphia, PA |
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When word of Alexander Hamilton's relations with a woman named Maria Reynolds began to leak out, Hamilton: |
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| wrote a pamphlet admitting he was an adulterer |
told George Washington privately that he was an adulterer |
| admitted to Congress that he was guilty of insider trading |
Made no comment |