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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of oppression did Wendell Phillips condemn in the North?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Wage slavery.
(c) Legalized slavery.
(d) Indentured servitude.

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

3. How did Thomas Jefferson feel about property rights?
(a) They were an unalienable right.
(b) They were the key to a stable natural order.
(c) They were to be dictated by the federal government.
(d) They were to be dictated by the state government.

4. How did Andrew Jackson view America's social order?
(a) As competitive and egalitarian.
(b) As a blank page, ready to be illustrated.
(c) Stiffled by government regulation.
(d) As chaotic and untamed.

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

6. How does Hofstadter describe Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy?
(a) High Representative.
(b) Non-interventionist.
(c) Defensive.
(d) Liberal.

7. According to the Founders, power should be divided vertically between which two groups?
(a) Congress and the President.
(b) The federal government and the states.
(c) The military and the private sector.
(d) The legislature and the judicial system.

8. What position did John C. Calhoun hold in James Monroe's cabinet?
(a) Secretary of War.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Vice-president.
(d) Attorney General.

9. How did the Founders separate power at the Federal level?
(a) Between Congress and the President.
(b) Between the Pentagon, the Congress, and the President.
(c) Between presidents, legislators, and judges.
(d) Between the members of the Presidential Cabinet.

10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation not prohibit?
(a) Owners from reclaiming their slaves from the North.
(b) Slavery in the South.
(c) New slaves from being brought into America.
(d) Slavery outside the South.

11. With what political party was Alexander Hamilton associated?
(a) The Whigs.
(b) The Federalists.
(c) The Progressive Party.
(d) The Democratic-Republicans.

12. Where did Thomas Jefferson believe most of the government's power should lie?
(a) With the people.
(b) With merchants.
(c) With the elected leaders.
(d) With industry owners.

13. What type of politician was Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Moderate.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Liberal.

14. Which act gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to use slavery as a political issue?
(a) The Militia Act.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The Writ Act.

15. How did Wendell Phillips view the culture of the South?
(a) As a bourgeois, immoral society.
(b) As a playground for greedy capitalists.
(c) As the bulwark of modern society.
(d) As a feudal civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Founders feel about democracy?

2. Who won the presidential election in 1828?

3. What practice among Northern factories did John C. Calhoun condemn?

4. Who were the Southwesterners?

5. Why were the Founders willing to let selfish men follow their own interests?

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