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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 lifestyle did Thomas Jefferson abhor?
(a) Frontier.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Mercantile.
(d) Agrarian.

2. What type of balance were the Founders attempting to create?
(a) A government between monarchy and democracy.
(b) A nation that could run itself without dissolving into chaos.
(c) A peaceful, yet structured state.
(d) A document that supported both the people and their leaders.

3. What changes did Thomas Jefferson make in Virginia?
(a) He paved the way for emancipation in Virginia.
(b) Radical economic reforms.
(c) The Virginia legislature was divided into two branches.
(d) Modest social reforms.

4. What type of lifestyle did Thomas Jefferson promote?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Mercantile.
(c) Frontier.
(d) Agrarian.

5. Why were the Founders willing to let selfish men follow their own interests?
(a) They did not want to control behavior with the government.
(b) They did not want to control the law.
(c) They thought man was inherently good.
(d) They understood the nature of man.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which phrase in the Declaration of Independence did John C. Calhoun object?

2. Which political theory is John C. Calhoun attributed with developing?

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

4. What form of oppression did Wendell Phillips condemn in the North?

5. What did the Founders believe about man?

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