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

2. How did the Founders plan for legislature to be processed?
(a) Through democratic inputs.
(b) Through fair representation.
(c) Through elected officials.
(d) By experienced men.

3. What were Thomas Jefferson's interests?
(a) Science and Medicine.
(b) Psycology and social behavior.
(c) Law and politics.
(d) Everything.

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

5. With what political party was Alexander Hamilton associated?
(a) The Progressive Party.
(b) The Democratic-Republicans.
(c) The Whigs.
(d) The Federalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Founders, what could use private vices to produce public benefits?

2. With what movement is William Lloyd Garrison associated?

3. What did the Emancipation Proclamation not prohibit?

4. According to Hofstadter, what type of politician was Abraham Lincoln?

5. What position did John C. Calhoun hold in South Carolina?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which citizens did the Founders originally intend to give the most power and why?

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

3. Why was John C. Calhoun forced to resign as vice-president?

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

5. What is an agrarian lifestyle?

6. Whom did Thomas Jefferson believe should have the most say in the government?

7. What opinion did the Founders have of democracy in general?

8. Why did Thomas Jefferson like Locke's political theory?

9. How did Andrew Jackson destroy the Bank of America?

10. According to Hofstadter, what was Abraham Lincoln's philosophy on slavery?

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