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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Speaker of the House under James Monroe advocate?
(a) Tight credit supply.
(b) Free trade.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Tariffs.

3. What was the liberal capitalist morality like, which Sellers says was offended?
(a) Pious.
(b) Traditionalist.
(c) Individualist.
(d) Communal.

4. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Servitude.
(c) Planters' profits.
(d) Racism.

5. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sellers say happened to new workers in Jackson's America?

3. Who does Sellers say will subvert democratic sentiment if markets expand?

4. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?

5. What did the Supreme Court effectively decide, which helped expansionism?

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