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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 new workers in Jackson's America?
(a) They were organized in unions.
(b) They were sent back to Europe.
(c) They were "deskilled."
(d) They moved west.

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

3. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?
(a) Bias toward commercial interests.
(b) Radicalism about westward expansion.
(c) Relentlessness about relocating Indians.
(d) Ambiguity between farming and commercial interests.

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

5. What was John Taylor's role in the reforms of 1810?
(a) Radical democratic.
(b) Conservative Republican.
(c) Agitator.
(d) Mediator.

6. What does Sellers say the original economic conflict took place between in America?
(a) Indigene and immigrant.
(b) Land and market.
(c) Farmer and manufacturer.
(d) Market and currency.

7. Who revolted against the New York Republican power structure?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) John Taylor.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Henry Clay.

8. What did the First Bank of the United States do to the economy?
(a) Regulate markets.
(b) Devalue currency.
(c) Tighten credit.
(d) Increase the amount of currency.

9. How does Sellers characterize the ethic Jackson got from his family?
(a) Religious.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Patriarchal.
(d) Matriarchal.

10. What factory work does Sellers say became much more efficient in Jackson's America?
(a) Railroad manufacturing.
(b) Paper processing.
(c) Cotton processing.
(d) Gun production.

11. 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.

12. What did the Supreme Court effectively decide, which helped expansionism?
(a) Institutionalization of laissez-faire capitalism.
(b) States rights.
(c) Federal supremacy over the states.
(d) Unconstitutionality of regulation.

13. Who will suffer with expanding markets?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Landowners.
(c) Manufacturers.
(d) Investors.

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

15. How does Sellers say the Supreme Court used its power?
(a) Reducing the power of the legislature.
(b) Striking down state laws.
(c) Protecting individuals.
(d) Protecting corporations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Andrew Jackson censured under John Quincy Adams?

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

4. Where was Andrew Jackson nominated for President?

5. How did liberal Democrats view Republican use of paper currency?

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