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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) Prostitution.
(b) Wage slavery.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Legalized slavery.

2. What did the Founders design the Constitution to protect?
(a) Freedom from interference.
(b) The nation from outside forces.
(c) The government from the people.
(d) The laws of the nation.

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

4. Who were the Southwesterners?
(a) A group of investors led by Andrew Jackson.
(b) One of Andrew Jackson's military regiments
(c) Andrew Jackson's constituents from Kentucky and Tennessee.
(d) A group of politicians from Kentucky and Tennessee

5. Where did the recolonization society want to send African-Americans?
(a) Liberia.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John C. Calhoun wish to preserve?

2. How many Southern states had seceded before Abraham Lincoln took office?

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

4. On the American frontier, how was social hierarchy gained?

5. To which political leader does Hofstadter compare John C. Calhoun?

(see the answer key)

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