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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Millenial Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Racism.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Planters' profits.

2. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?
(a) Traditional Christianity.
(b) Stern morality.
(c) Sentimentalism.
(d) The Bible.

3. What happened to John Calhoun when Andrew Jackson formed his cabinet?
(a) He was isolated.
(b) He was celebrated.
(c) He was ruined.
(d) He was entrenched.

4. How were people feeling about slavery in the 1810s?
(a) It was on the verge of being outlawed.
(b) Proponents were on the verge of legalizing slavery in western territories.
(c) Slave traders were expecting the trade to expand.
(d) Opposition to it was growing.

5. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Ending the international slave trade.
(c) The Tariff of Abominations.
(d) Whiskey rebellion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who revolted against the New York Republican power structure?

2. Why was Andrew Jackson censured under John Quincy Adams?

3. To what does Sellers attribute the rise in democratic sentiment?

4. What did Charles Finney try to do?

5. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?

(see the answer key)

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