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

2. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?
(a) Raised production cotton costs.
(b) Raised the cost of labor for cotton processing.
(c) Raised the cost of cotton distribution.
(d) Lowered cotton production costs.

3. How does Sellers describe the composition of the democratic field when Andrew Jackson was running for the democratic nomination?
(a) Nationalist.
(b) Radical.
(c) Xenophobic.
(d) Moderate.

4. Who led South Carolina in opposition to Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Sam Houston.
(c) John Calhoun.
(d) James Monroe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?

2. Where did reformers look for a model of how society could be?

3. What does Sellers say the original economic conflict took place between in America?

4. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?

5. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?

(see the answer key)

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