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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. According to Sellers, what changed the cost of labor, in Jackson's America?
(a) Population explosion.
(b) Democratization.
(c) Territorial expansion.
(d) Militarization.

2. Who brought Thomas Jefferson to power?
(a) Freed slaves.
(b) Anti-commercial landowners.
(c) Capitalist merchants.
(d) Factory owners and investors.

3. What did John Calhoun support?
(a) States' rights.
(b) Free trade.
(c) Equal distribution of wealth.
(d) Infrastructural expansion.

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

5. How were people feeling about slavery in the 1810s?
(a) It was on the verge of being outlawed.
(b) Opposition to it was growing.
(c) Proponents were on the verge of legalizing slavery in western territories.
(d) Slave traders were expecting the trade to expand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?

2. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?

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

4. What resulted from the changes that took place under Jackson?

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

(see the answer key)

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