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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Politicians.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?
(a) The breakdown of the family.
(b) Female sexual liberation.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Urbanization.

3. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?
(a) John Calhoun.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) James Monroe.

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

5. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?
(a) Wilderness.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Pre-capitalist.
(d) Industrial capitalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?

2. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?

3. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?

4. What benefited from the emotional effects of economic stress in 1819?

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

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