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

2. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) Dialectic of class warfare.
(b) Labor theory of value.
(c) The economics of poverty.
(d) The Master/Slave dialectic.

3. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?
(a) The abolition movement.
(b) The antinomian movement.
(c) The Congregationalist movement.
(d) The revivalist movement.

4. When did the Jackson administration end?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1827.

5. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?
(a) Unitarians
(b) Democrats.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Antinomians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did democratic sentiment exist in the south, in Sellers's account?

2. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?

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

4. What does Sellers attribute Jackson's rise to?

5. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?

(see the answer key)

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