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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concern did Northern laborers have about slavery?
(a) An increase in slave states would drive the price of goods up.
(b) They feared the rise of white slavery.
(c) They could not compete with free labor.
(d) Slavery was morally wrong.

2. What philosophy did John C. Calhoun have about African-Americans?
(a) They were naturally inferior to Anglo-Saxons.
(b) They wanted someone to take care of them.
(c) They were naturally wild and dangerous.
(d) They were capable of great deception.

3. Why did Andrew Jackson want to close down the bank or force inflation?
(a) To create a new bank with his own investors.
(b) To allow for the privatization of banking.
(c) To change the method of loan assumption.
(d) To reduce the debt burden on land speculators.

4. To which political leader does Hofstadter compare John C. Calhoun?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Edmund Burke.

5. How did John C. Calhoun believe the North was attempting to gain political control over new states?
(a) Through bribery and political coercion.
(b) By building banks in the new states.
(c) By building railroads to the North.
(d) By outlawing slavery in new states.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Founders plan for legislature to be processed?

2. What did the Southwesterners want Andrew Jackson to do?

3. With whose political theory did Thomas Jefferson agree?

4. What did John C. Calhoun believe capitalism would produce?

5. How did Wendell Phillips view the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opinion did the Founders have about human nature?

2. Why does Hofstadter consider Wendell Phillips the most effective abolitionist?

3. What other form of oppression did Wendell Phillips seek to undermine besides slavery?

4. How did the American aristocracy establish their social hierarchy in the 18th and 19th centuries?

5. What was John C. Calhoun's philosophy on slavery?

6. How did Thomas Jefferson's foreign policies affect his career?

7. What is an agrarian lifestyle?

8. How did Andrew Jackson ensure that his policies would be enforced long after he left office?

9. Describe Wendell Phillips.

10. What social reforms did Thomas Jefferson make in Virginia?

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