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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 happened to John Calhoun's political power when Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) It was exposed.
(b) It increased.
(c) It went behind the scenes.
(d) It waned.

2. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?
(a) The rise of abolitionism.
(b) The concentration of political power in democratic states.
(c) The concentration of wealth in elite hands.
(d) The collapse of the Republican power structure.

3. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?
(a) Philosophical view of religion as meaning-making.
(b) Historical view of religion as an institution among institutions.
(c) Marxist concept of religion as a reaction to social trends.
(d) Nietzsche an concept of morality as the product of class interest.

4. What did Charles Finney try to do?
(a) Turn sinners into businessmen.
(b) Turn women into preachers.
(c) Turn capitalists into philanthropists.
(d) Turn slaveholders into preachers.

5. Why was Andrew Jackson censured under John Quincy Adams?
(a) Intrusion into Florida.
(b) Massacring Native Americans.
(c) Piracy.
(d) War crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?

2. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?

3. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?

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

5. What was Jackson's belief about markets?

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