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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 was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?
(a) Media becomes even cheaper to produce.
(b) Novels and newspapers were widely distributed.
(c) Immigration increased.
(d) Industrial jobs required reading and writing.

2. To what does Sellers attribute the rise in democratic sentiment?
(a) The people's desire for cheaper goods.
(b) The people's desire for peace.
(c) The people's desire for stability.
(d) The people's desire for western expansion.

3. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?
(a) The Constitution was amended.
(b) Slavery was allowed to move into western territories.
(c) The military was called in.
(d) Tariffs were reduced.

4. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?
(a) That capitalism is driven by repressed sexual energy.
(b) That capitalism leads to social repression.
(c) That capitalism thrives in repressive cultures.
(d) That capitalism liberates sexual energy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sellers say the Great Awakening made possible?

2. What did the First Bank of the United States do to the economy?

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

4. What did Charles Finney try to do?

5. What does Sellers say was the result of the economic crash?

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