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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 liberal Democrats view Republican use of paper currency?
(a) They felt they were gaining an advantage in financial transactions with farmers.
(b) They felt they were creating too conservative a fiscal policy, which would stifle growth.
(c) They felt they were destabilizing the rates for commodities with speculation.
(d) They felt the Republicans were using it to bolster their institutions.

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

3. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?
(a) Mid 1820s.
(b) Early 1820s.
(c) Late 1820s.
(d) 1830s.

4. Who felt threatened by the market revolution, according to Sellers?
(a) Big merchants.
(b) Commercial groups.
(c) Large landholders.
(d) Investors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sellers say Thomas Jefferson's Republicanism emphasizes?

2. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?

3. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?

4. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?

5. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?

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