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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. How does Sellers say the Republican pro-market forces counteracted anti-market forces?
(a) By rigging elections against their candidates.
(b) By getting them to support Republicans.
(c) By making compromises with them.
(d) By buying or suppressing their votes.

2. What faction became particularly powerful as a result of Republican policies?
(a) New York commercial interests.
(b) Western railroads.
(c) Northern manufacturers.
(d) Southern agriculturalists.

3. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) French Canadians.
(c) Spanish in Florida.
(d) Native Americans.

4. What was James Madison's effect on Thomas Jefferson's pro-land positions?
(a) Tempered them with markets.
(b) Protected them with regulations.
(c) Expanded them with incentives.
(d) Exacerbated them with tariffs.

5. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?
(a) Standard-bearer.
(b) Populist leader.
(c) Party kingmaker.
(d) Opposition candidate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?

2. What does Sellers say the Northern interests pushed for?

3. Why was Andrew Jackson censured under John Quincy Adams?

4. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

5. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?

(see the answer key)

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