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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. 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.

2. What direction does Sellers say the political parties moved in as a result of the 1810 economic crash?
(a) Sectarianism.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Regionalism.
(d) Pacifism.

3. How did consumerism change as a result of the financial crash?
(a) Focus on cheap goods.
(b) Focus on sheer survival.
(c) Focus on imports.
(d) Focus on home-made crafts.

4. What does Sellers say happened to debtors when the economic crashed?
(a) They were able to buy land extremely cheap.
(b) They were overwhelmed by depreciating currency.
(c) They lost their fortunes.
(d) They were left with worthless promissory notes.

5. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) James Monroe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did liberal Democrats view Republican use of paper currency?

3. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?

4. What was James Madison's effect on Thomas Jefferson's pro-land positions?

5. What did John Calhoun support?

(see the answer key)

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