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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Hard Times, Hard Feelings, Hard Money.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?
(a) Toward agrarianism.
(b) Toward laissez-faire capitalism.
(c) Toward Republicanism.
(d) Toward American isolationism.

2. What does Sellers say happened to debtors when the economic crashed?
(a) They were left with worthless promissory notes.
(b) They lost their fortunes.
(c) They were overwhelmed by depreciating currency.
(d) They were able to buy land extremely cheap.

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

4. What does Sellers say Thomas Jefferson's Republicanism emphasizes?
(a) Equal distribution of wealth.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Free trade.
(d) Engagement.

5. What did new politicians do to come into power?
(a) Attack Britain.
(b) Attack France.
(c) Attack the banks.
(d) Attack merchants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?

2. What did John Calhoun support?

3. What does Sellers say the original economic conflict took place between in America?

4. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?

5. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?

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