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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Ambiguous Republicanism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sellers characterize labor in Jackson's America?
(a) Inexpensive.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Rare.
(d) Organized.

2. When does Sellers date the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1812.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?
(a) Northern manufacturers.
(b) Western railroads.
(c) New York commercial interests.
(d) Southern agriculturalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Jackson administration end?

2. What does Sellers say James Madison's Republicanism emphasizes?

3. What faction became particularly powerful as a result of Republican policies?

4. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?

5. What led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?

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