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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers say happened to farmers during the economic crash?
(a) They lost money in speculation and were sucked into the market.
(b) They sold their farms and moved their families to the cities.
(c) They could not afford the costs of raising their crops.
(d) They had to pay cash wages for labor they used to get simply for room and board.

2. Who gained power during the economic crash?
(a) Radical Democrats.
(b) Radical Republicans.
(c) Conservative Republicans.
(d) Moderate Democrats.

3. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

4. How does Sellers say the Republican pro-market forces counteracted anti-market forces?
(a) By getting them to support Republicans.
(b) By rigging elections against their candidates.
(c) By buying or suppressing their votes.
(d) By making compromises with them.

5. Who did the public feel hostility toward, according to Sellers?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Elites.

6. When does Sellers date the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1812.

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

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

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

10. What ideology reigned in the National Bank of the U.S.?
(a) National socialism.
(b) National Republicanism.
(c) International mercantilism.
(d) Agriculture democracy.

11. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?
(a) New York.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Massachusetts.

12. When did the Jackson administration end?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1837.

13. What was John Taylor an advocate of?
(a) Federal oversight.
(b) States rights.
(c) Reforming banking corruption.
(d) Paper money.

14. How did the Second Great Awakening affect Jackson's America, according to Sellers?
(a) Wider array of pagan religions.
(b) Harsher penalties for witchcraft.
(c) Stronger Catholicism.
(d) Stronger Protestantism.

15. What does Sellers say Jackson learned from his mother as a child?
(a) Defend yourself.
(b) Never tell a lie.
(c) Get ahead.
(d) Do the right thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was the question of slavery's expansion into Missouri cast?

3. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?

4. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?

5. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?

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