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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the Bucktails opposed to in New York?
(a) The federal government.
(b) Southern manufacturers.
(c) The democratic elites.
(d) The Republican establishment.

2. Who would normally have prevented economic revolution from changing people's lives?
(a) The government.
(b) Slaves.
(c) The people.
(d) The manufacturers.

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

4. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?
(a) Party kingmaker.
(b) Opposition candidate.
(c) Standard-bearer.
(d) Populist leader.

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

6. 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 destabilizing the rates for commodities with speculation.
(c) They felt the Republicans were using it to bolster their institutions.
(d) They felt they were creating too conservative a fiscal policy, which would stifle growth.

7. How does Sellers say Americans reproduced in Jackson's America?
(a) Deliberately.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Steadily.

8. What was Jackson's position before entering politics?
(a) Merchant.
(b) General.
(c) Professor.
(d) Admiral.

9. What did the Bucktails accomplish in their revolt in New York?
(a) A democratically managed party.
(b) Reforms on the Supreme Court.
(c) A more radical party.
(d) Relief from federally mandated tariffs.

10. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?
(a) James Madison.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

11. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?
(a) International socialism.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Agricultural pre-capitalism.
(d) Technological capitalism.

12. What did the Speaker of the House under James Monroe advocate?
(a) Tariffs.
(b) Free trade.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Tight credit supply.

13. What does Sellers say James Madison's Republicanism emphasizes?
(a) Free markets.
(b) Strong central government.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Expansionism.

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

15. What did new politicians do to come into power?
(a) Attack France.
(b) Attack the banks.
(c) Attack merchants.
(d) Attack Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what case was expansionism restrained?

2. How does Sellers describe the Republicanism of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

3. What does Sellers say was the result of the economic crash?

4. Who did the public feel hostility toward, according to Sellers?

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

(see the answer keys)

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