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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What effect did the cost of labor have on capitalism, according to Sellers?
(a) Prevented organization of corporations.
(b) Prevented the consolidation of profits.
(c) Distributed profits.
(d) Fostered the organization of corporations.

4. How does Sellers compare James Madison to Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Less business friendly.
(b) More isolationist.
(c) More protectionist.
(d) More market-oriented.

5. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?
(a) Agricultural pre-capitalism.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) International socialism.
(d) Technological capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

2. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?

3. How does Sellers say Americans reproduced in Jackson's America?

4. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?

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

(see the answer key)

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