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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. Which institution was responsible for loaning large sums of money in the 1820s?
(a) The Bank of the Congress.
(b) The First Bank of the United States.
(c) The Second Bank of the United States.
(d) The Bank of North America.

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

3. How did Thomas Jefferson secure freedom of religion in his home state?
(a) By organizing non-violent protests.
(b) Through reform legislature.
(c) By implementing the Freedom of Religion Act.
(d) By disestablishing the Anglican Church.

4. What did the recolonization society want Abraham Lincoln to do?
(a) Relocate slaves to Mexico.
(b) Present their program to Congress as an Act.
(c) Relocate slaves to Africa.
(d) Free the children of current slaves.

5. How did Wendell Phillips view the culture of the South?
(a) As the bulwark of modern society.
(b) As a feudal civilization.
(c) As a playground for greedy capitalists.
(d) As a bourgeois, immoral society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of Americans did Thomas Jefferson distrust the most?

2. How did John C. Calhoun believe the North was attempting to gain political control over new states?

3. With what famous military victory is Andrew Jackson associated?

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

5. Why was John C. Calhoun forced to resign from Andrew Jackson's cabinet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Abraham Lincoln rise to power?

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

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

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

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

6. What interests did Thomas Jefferson's political party seek to protect?

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

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

9. Why did some free states in the West not want freed slaves residing in their states?

10. What is "wage slavery?"

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