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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 philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?
(a) Philosophical view of religion as meaning-making.
(b) Nietzsche an concept of morality as the product of class interest.
(c) Historical view of religion as an institution among institutions.
(d) Marxist concept of religion as a reaction to social trends.

2. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?
(a) Tighten immigration restrictions.
(b) Subsidies for the heartland.
(c) Light tariffs on imported goods.
(d) Incentives for railroad developers.

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

4. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?
(a) Ending the international slave trade.
(b) Whiskey rebellion.
(c) Segregation.
(d) The Tariff of Abominations.

5. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?
(a) New York commercial interests.
(b) Western railroads.
(c) Southern agriculturalists.
(d) Northern manufacturers.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what topic does Sellers say James Madison agreed with Thomas Jefferson?

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

3. When does Sellers date the beginning of the Jacksonian era?

4. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?

5. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?

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