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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 the First Bank of the United States do to the economy?
(a) Devalue currency.
(b) Tighten credit.
(c) Regulate markets.
(d) Increase the amount of currency.

2. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?
(a) Bias toward commercial interests.
(b) Ambiguity between farming and commercial interests.
(c) Relentlessness about relocating Indians.
(d) Radicalism about westward expansion.

3. Who does Sellers say found New Light theology too radical?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Southern Baptists.
(c) Antinomians.
(d) Southern New England Congregationalists.

4. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?
(a) Manufacturers.
(b) Elite investors.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Cotton industry.

5. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?
(a) Profitability.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Social mobility.
(d) Emotional repression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John Taylor an advocate of?

2. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?

3. What did new politicians do to come into power?

4. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?

5. What did South Carolina argue it could do?

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