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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. How did Wendell Phillips view the Civil War?
(a) As an evil necessity.
(b) As the last hope to end slavery in the United States.
(c) As a struggle between a bourgeois and a feudal civilization.
(d) With disdain.

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

3. What form of rivalry did the Founders wish to allow in their new country?
(a) Competition.
(b) Class change.
(c) Interstate rivalries.
(d) Land acquisition.

4. From which ancient philosophers did the Founders draw ideas?
(a) Epicurus and Plato.
(b) Aristotle and Cicero.
(c) Plato and Socrates.
(d) Diogenes and Socrates.

5. What concern did Abraham Lincoln have about secession?
(a) Its morality.
(b) Its legality.
(c) The division of families.
(d) The loss to the economy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which institution was responsible for loaning large sums of money in the 1820s?

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

4. Why did Wendell Phillips become estranged from William Lloyd Garrison?

5. With what class was Andrew Jackson associated?

(see the answer key)

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