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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 organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?
(a) Profit from the gap between democracy and capitalism.
(b) Distinguish between nationalists and merchants.
(c) Resolve the contradiction between democracy and capitalism.
(d) Expand into new territories before the federal government established rule of law there.

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

3. Where was Andrew Jackson nominated for President?
(a) Florida.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Missouri.

4. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?
(a) The concentration of wealth in elite hands.
(b) The concentration of political power in democratic states.
(c) The collapse of the Republican power structure.
(d) The rise of abolitionism.

5. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Planters' profits.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?

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

3. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?

4. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?

5. What did John Calhoun support?

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