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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. What was the purpose of Biddle's action?
(a) To boost the economy before elections.
(b) To send the economy into a tailspin.
(c) To make a lot of money for his investor friends.
(d) To spur industrial activity.

2. What was the result of the bank's abolition?
(a) Depression.
(b) Inflation.
(c) Higher tariffs.
(d) Economic expansion.

3. How did the Second Great Awakening affect Jackson's America, according to Sellers?
(a) Harsher penalties for witchcraft.
(b) Stronger Protestantism.
(c) Wider array of pagan religions.
(d) Stronger Catholicism.

4. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?
(a) The deficit.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Tariffs.
(d) Isolationism.

5. What does Sellers say the growth of American wealth resulted in?
(a) America as a business-friendly government.
(b) America as an agricultural nation.
(c) America as a world power.
(d) America as a technological leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Speaker of the House under James Monroe advocate?

2. Who gained power during the economic crash?

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

4. How does Sellers describe the composition of the democratic field when Andrew Jackson was running for the democratic nomination?

5. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?

(see the answer key)

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