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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 step did the Treasury Department take after the economy started to react to the abolition of the Federal Bank?
(a) Raised tariffs.
(b) Controlled the money supply.
(c) Borrowed money from Amsterdam.
(d) Subsidized westward expansion.

2. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) John Adams.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

3. What benefited from the emotional effects of economic stress in 1819?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Investors.
(c) Radical Democrats.
(d) Antinomians.

4. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?
(a) He designed it.
(b) He argued for regulating it.
(c) He resisted it.
(d) He expanded it.

5. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) John Calhoun.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?

2. On what topic does Sellers say James Madison agreed with Thomas Jefferson?

3. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

4. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?

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

(see the answer key)

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