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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. What did new politicians do to come into power?
(a) Attack merchants.
(b) Attack the banks.
(c) Attack Britain.
(d) Attack France.

2. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?
(a) Judgment day was imminent.
(b) A new utopia was near at hand.
(c) The world would be destroyed for mankind's sins.
(d) The millennium-long rule of Christ would begin gradually.

3. What happened to John Calhoun's political power when Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) It was exposed.
(b) It increased.
(c) It went behind the scenes.
(d) It waned.

4. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?
(a) Tripled.
(b) Remained the same.
(c) Doubled.
(d) Declined by half.

5. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?
(a) The army.
(b) Trade with England.
(c) Peace west of the Appalachians.
(d) The Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sellers say Jackson came to be sympathetic with after the Panic of 1819?

2. What direction does Sellers say the political parties moved in as a result of the 1810 economic crash?

3. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?

4. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?

5. What sphere did NOT change under Jackson, according to Sellers?

(see the answer key)

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