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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sellers describe the composition of the democratic field when Andrew Jackson was running for the democratic nomination?
(a) Moderate.
(b) Xenophobic.
(c) Nationalist.
(d) Radical.

3. What does Sellers say the Northern interests pushed for?
(a) Charting the Louisiana Purchase.
(b) The Erie Canal.
(c) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) Dredging the Mississippi.

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

5. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?
(a) Subsidies for the heartland.
(b) Incentives for railroad developers.
(c) Light tariffs on imported goods.
(d) Tighten immigration restrictions.

6. 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.

7. What was James Madison's effect on Thomas Jefferson's pro-land positions?
(a) Exacerbated them with tariffs.
(b) Expanded them with incentives.
(c) Tempered them with markets.
(d) Protected them with regulations.

8. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) John Calhoun.

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

10. According to Sellers, what changed the cost of labor, in Jackson's America?
(a) Population explosion.
(b) Democratization.
(c) Territorial expansion.
(d) Militarization.

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

12. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?
(a) French Canadians.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Spanish in Florida.
(d) Native Americans.

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

14. What does Sellers say the growth of American wealth resulted in?
(a) America as a technological leader.
(b) America as a world power.
(c) America as a business-friendly government.
(d) America as an agricultural nation.

15. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?
(a) By promising to raise tariffs.
(b) By pitting the farmers and planters against each other.
(c) By setting the people against the elite bankers.
(d) By uniting farmers and planters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did consumerism change as a result of the financial crash?

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

3. How were people feeling about slavery in the 1810s?

4. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?

5. What ideology reigned in the National Bank of the U.S.?

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