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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Sellers attribute Jackson's rise to?
(a) Utopianism.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Expansionism.
(d) Economic disaffection.
2. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Mercantile.
(d) Financial.
3. What does Sellers say the growth of American wealth resulted in?
(a) America as an agricultural nation.
(b) America as a business-friendly government.
(c) America as a world power.
(d) America as a technological leader.
4. What sphere did NOT change under Jackson, according to Sellers?
(a) Economic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Political.
(d) Linguistic.
5. Who gained power during the economic crash?
(a) Moderate Democrats.
(b) Radical Democrats.
(c) Conservative Republicans.
(d) Radical Republicans.
6. Who did the public feel hostility toward, according to Sellers?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Elites.
7. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Servitude.
(b) Planters' profits.
(c) Racism.
(d) Miscegenation.
8. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?
(a) Relentlessness about relocating Indians.
(b) Bias toward commercial interests.
(c) Ambiguity between farming and commercial interests.
(d) Radicalism about westward expansion.
9. How did liberal Democrats view Republican use of paper currency?
(a) They felt they were destabilizing the rates for commodities with speculation.
(b) They felt the Republicans were using it to bolster their institutions.
(c) They felt they were creating too conservative a fiscal policy, which would stifle growth.
(d) They felt they were gaining an advantage in financial transactions with farmers.
10. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) John Calhoun.
11. What does Sellers say happened to farmers during the economic crash?
(a) They sold their farms and moved their families to the cities.
(b) They lost money in speculation and were sucked into the market.
(c) They had to pay cash wages for labor they used to get simply for room and board.
(d) They could not afford the costs of raising their crops.
12. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Virginia.
13. According to Sellers, what changed the cost of labor, in Jackson's America?
(a) Territorial expansion.
(b) Militarization.
(c) Population explosion.
(d) Democratization.
14. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?
(a) Mercantile positions.
(b) Management positions.
(c) Unskilled labor positions.
(d) Apprenticeship positions.
15. How did families change in the economic hard times?
(a) Families did not grow as quickly.
(b) Families split apart more frequently.
(c) Families had to sell children as indentured servants.
(d) Families grew more quickly.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
2. How did the Second Great Awakening affect Jackson's America, according to Sellers?
3. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?
4. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?
5. What led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?
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