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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers say the Northern interests pushed for?
(a) Dredging the Mississippi.
(b) The Erie Canal.
(c) Charting the Louisiana Purchase.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

2. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?
(a) By uniting farmers and planters.
(b) By promising to raise tariffs.
(c) By setting the people against the elite bankers.
(d) By pitting the farmers and planters against each other.

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

4. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) Growth of corporations with cheap labor.
(b) Powerful landholders controlled cheap labor.
(c) Equilibrium between landholders and workers.
(d) Exploitation of workers by corporations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did families change in the economic hard times?

2. Who does Sellers say will subvert democratic sentiment if markets expand?

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

4. Who became Speaker of the House under James Monroe?

5. How did things change for political elites, according to Sellers?

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