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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Crisis of 1819.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What factory work does Sellers say became much more efficient in Jackson's America?
(a) Paper processing.
(b) Railroad manufacturing.
(c) Gun production.
(d) Cotton processing.

2. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) Powerful landholders controlled cheap labor.
(b) Growth of corporations with cheap labor.
(c) Equilibrium between landholders and workers.
(d) Exploitation of workers by corporations.

3. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?
(a) Ambiguity between farming and commercial interests.
(b) Radicalism about westward expansion.
(c) Relentlessness about relocating Indians.
(d) Bias toward commercial interests.

4. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?
(a) Technological capitalism.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Agricultural pre-capitalism.
(d) International socialism.

5. Which group was on the decline by the time Monroe became president?
(a) Investors.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Manufacturers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought Thomas Jefferson to power?

2. When did the Jackson administration end?

3. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?

4. What does Sellers say would be the result of expanding markets?

5. Who will suffer with expanding markets?

(see the answer key)

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