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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Ambiguous Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sellers say Jackson came to be sympathetic with after the Panic of 1819?
(a) Slave owners.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Regionalists.
(d) Radical Democrats.

2. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Commercial interests.
(c) Socialist agitators.
(d) Manufacturers.

3. Which group was on the decline by the time Monroe became president?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Manufacturers.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Investors.

4. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) John Adams.
(d) James Monroe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sellers say the Republican pro-market forces counteracted anti-market forces?

2. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?

3. When did the Jackson administration end?

4. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?

5. What balance did the U.S. strike with the formation of a two-party system?

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