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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 happened to John Calhoun when Andrew Jackson formed his cabinet?
(a) He was isolated.
(b) He was entrenched.
(c) He was ruined.
(d) He was celebrated.

2. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?
(a) French Canadians.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Spanish in Florida.
(d) Mexicans.

3. What sphere did NOT change under Jackson, according to Sellers?
(a) Religious.
(b) Economic.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Political.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did pre-marital sex have to be restricted?

2. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?

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

4. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?

5. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?

(see the answer key)

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