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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Calhoun support?
(a) Equal distribution of wealth.
(b) States' rights.
(c) Infrastructural expansion.
(d) Free trade.

2. What was James Madison's effect on Thomas Jefferson's pro-land positions?
(a) Expanded them with incentives.
(b) Exacerbated them with tariffs.
(c) Tempered them with markets.
(d) Protected them with regulations.

3. Who will suffer with expanding markets?
(a) Investors.
(b) Manufacturers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Landowners.

4. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?
(a) That capitalism is driven by repressed sexual energy.
(b) That capitalism thrives in repressive cultures.
(c) That capitalism liberates sexual energy.
(d) That capitalism leads to social repression.

5. On what topic does Sellers say James Madison agreed with Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Free trade.
(c) Tariffs.
(d) Expansionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the question of slavery's expansion into Missouri cast?

2. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?

3. What does Sellers say Jackson learned from his mother as a child?

4. How did families change in the economic hard times?

5. What ideology reigned in the National Bank of the U.S.?

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