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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Great Contradiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will suffer with expanding markets?
(a) Landowners.
(b) Manufacturers.
(c) Investors.
(d) Politicians.

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

3. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?
(a) Manufacturers.
(b) Merchants.
(c) New York commercial interests.
(d) Slave owners.

4. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) Equilibrium between landholders and workers.
(b) Growth of corporations with cheap labor.
(c) Powerful landholders controlled cheap labor.
(d) Exploitation of workers by corporations.

5. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?
(a) Repression of sex.
(b) The sterilization of sex.
(c) The mechanicalization of sex.
(d) The celebration of sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?

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

3. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?

4. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?

5. How did the changes in the public school system affect American culture?

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