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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Thomas Jefferson secure freedom of religion in his home state?
(a) By organizing non-violent protests.
(b) Through reform legislature.
(c) By implementing the Freedom of Religion Act.
(d) By disestablishing the Anglican Church.

2. Who won the presidential election in 1824?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) William Crawford.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

3. How did Andrew Jackson acquire massive debts?
(a) Through land speculation.
(b) By funding unsucessful military campaigns.
(c) By gambling.
(d) Through wasteful living.

4. Which group of Americans did Thomas Jefferson believe should have the most voting power?
(a) Farmers and land owners.
(b) Laborers.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Industry owners.

5. How did John C. Calhoun believe the North was attempting to gain political control over new states?
(a) By building banks in the new states.
(b) By building railroads to the North.
(c) By outlawing slavery in new states.
(d) Through bribery and political coercion.

6. What did Wendell Phillips want to prevent people from becoming?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Angry.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Submissive.

7. To which phrase in the Declaration of Independence did John C. Calhoun object?
(a) Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
(b) All men are created equal.
(c) The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.
(d) Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

8. How did the Founders design ruling institutions?
(a) Based on the model of the Roman Empire.
(b) According to the natural order.
(c) To fit man's natural inclinations.
(d) According to tradition.

9. How does Hofstadter describe abolitionism?
(a) As a moral fervor.
(b) As the beginning of humanism.
(c) As an economic plan.
(d) As a political sinkhole.

10. Which institution created by Alexander Hamilton did Thomas Jefferson allow to expire?
(a) The Congressional Congress.
(b) The Court of North America.
(c) The Bank of North America.
(d) The First Bank of the United States.

11. How does Hofstadter describe Andrew Jackson's economic policies?
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) Mercantile.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Corporate capitalism.

12. What did the industrial lifestyles in Britain and France produce?
(a) A climate of social change and development.
(b) Massive amounts of wealth for a few people.
(c) An equal distribution of wealth among the workers.
(d) A climate of social dissoultion.

13. According to Hofstadter, how is Andrew Jackson often depicted?
(a) As an aggressive proponent for military conquest.
(b) As one of the most influential men in history.
(c) As an arrogant aristocrat.
(d) As an opponent of aristocratic privilege.

14. What did John C. Calhoun wish to preserve?
(a) His wealth.
(b) Slavery.
(c) The Union.
(d) The South.

15. With whose political theory did Thomas Jefferson agree?
(a) Joseph Priestley.
(b) Thomas Paine.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Edmund Burke.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what movement is Wendell Phillips associated?

2. What position did John C. Calhoun hold in James Monroe's cabinet?

3. With what class was Andrew Jackson associated?

4. Which groups of people did the Southwesterners wish to give voting rights?

5. Which act gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to use slavery as a political issue?

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