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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Ambiguous Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers say was the result of the economic crash?
(a) A period of austerity.
(b) A period of inflation.
(c) A bountiful period.
(d) A period of reinvestment.

2. What sphere did NOT change under Jackson, according to Sellers?
(a) Political.
(b) Economic.
(c) Religious.
(d) Linguistic.

3. Who brought Thomas Jefferson to power?
(a) Freed slaves.
(b) Capitalist merchants.
(c) Anti-commercial landowners.
(d) Factory owners and investors.

4. How does Sellers describe the Republicanism of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
(a) Extreme.
(b) Ambiguous.
(c) Committed.
(d) Literate.

5. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Racism.
(b) Servitude.
(c) Planters' profits.
(d) Miscegenation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?

2. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?

3. What does Sellers say happened to farmers during the economic crash?

4. Who would normally have prevented economic revolution from changing people's lives?

5. What factory work does Sellers say became much more efficient in Jackson's America?

(see the answer key)

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