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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Hard Times, Hard Feelings, Hard Money.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What resulted from the changes that took place under Jackson?
(a) A repressive socialist regime.
(b) Our modern liberal democratic state.
(c) A neo-feudalist militaristic state.
(d) A confederation of independent states.

3. What does Sellers say the original economic conflict took place between in America?
(a) Market and currency.
(b) Indigene and immigrant.
(c) Land and market.
(d) Farmer and manufacturer.

4. How did families change in the economic hard times?
(a) Families did not grow as quickly.
(b) Families grew more quickly.
(c) Families had to sell children as indentured servants.
(d) Families split apart more frequently.

5. What did the Speaker of the House under James Monroe advocate?
(a) Free trade.
(b) Tariffs.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Tight credit supply.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the public feel hostility toward, according to Sellers?

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

4. What ideology reigned in the National Bank of the U.S.?

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

(see the answer key)

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