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

2. How many votes did Andrew Jackson win the runoff by?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) One.
(d) Thirty-two.

3. How did Andrew Jackson change his stance with regard to the Indian removal issue in Georgia?
(a) He insisted on federal coordination of policies.
(b) He allowed the military to act on its own.
(c) He backed states' rights.
(d) He insisted on the federal government's primacy.

4. How does Sellers define the ideal of liberal capitalism?
(a) The economic tendency toward creating the possibility of social equality.
(b) Equality before the law.
(c) Equality of opportunity.
(d) Equality of powerlessness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?

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

3. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?

4. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?

5. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

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