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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Financial.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Mercantile.

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

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

4. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?
(a) Railroads.
(b) Elite investors.
(c) Cotton industry.
(d) Manufacturers.

5. What does Sellers say James Madison's Republicanism emphasizes?
(a) Expansionism.
(b) Free markets.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Strong central government.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sellers characterize labor in Jackson's America?

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

3. What did the First Bank of the United States do to the economy?

4. According to Sellers, what changed the cost of labor, in Jackson's America?

5. In what case was expansionism restrained?

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