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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. According to the Founders, power should be divided vertically between which two groups?
(a) The military and the private sector.
(b) Congress and the President.
(c) The legislature and the judicial system.
(d) The federal government and the states.

2. With what political party was Abraham Lincoln associated in Illinois?
(a) The Democratic-Republicans.
(b) The Federalists.
(c) The Progressive Party.
(d) The Whigs.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Andrew Jackson want to close down the bank or force inflation?

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

3. Who won the presidential election in 1832?

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation not prohibit?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What concerns did white laborers have over slavery?

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

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

5. Why were the Founders attempting to break off their association with Great Britain?

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

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

8. How did Andrew Jackson support the growth of capitalism in the United States?

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

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

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