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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Wendell Phillips: the Patrician as Agitator.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the Constitution based upon?
(a) Fragments of English political philosophy.
(b) Greek and Roman political philosophy.
(c) Experience and observation.
(d) European tradition mixed with revolutionary philosophy.

3. According to Hofstadter, what type of politician was Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Moderate conservative.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Strong conservative.

4. What did the Southwesterners want Andrew Jackson to do?
(a) Create a private banking system.
(b) Run for president of the United States.
(c) Oppose the bank and force states to provide debt relief.
(d) Take Texas for the United States.

5. Who won the presidential election in 1828?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) William Crawford.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Founding Fathers?

2. How does Hofstadter describe Andrew Jackson's economic policies?

3. How did Wendell Phillips view the culture of the North?

4. What did the industrial lifestyles in Britain and France produce?

5. Why did most members of the abolitionist movement have difficulty convincing people to support the end of slavery?

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