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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the condition of the U.S. in Jackson's time?
(a) Mostly settled territory.
(b) Mostly open territory.
(c) Mostly Eastern seaboard territory.
(d) Mostly agricultural territory.

2. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?
(a) The concentration of political power in democratic states.
(b) The concentration of wealth in elite hands.
(c) The collapse of the Republican power structure.
(d) The rise of abolitionism.

3. What does Sellers attribute Jackson's rise to?
(a) Expansionism.
(b) Economic disaffection.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Utopianism.

4. 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.

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

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

7. What direction does Sellers say the political parties moved in as a result of the 1810 economic crash?
(a) Sectarianism.
(b) Pacifism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Regionalism.

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

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

10. What does Sellers say would be the result of expanding markets?
(a) Restricting the creation of wealth.
(b) Concentration of wealth.
(c) Distribution of wealth.
(d) Proletarian uprisings.

11. Who does Sellers say Jackson came to be sympathetic with after the Panic of 1819?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Regionalists.
(c) Slave owners.
(d) Radical Democrats.

12. How does Sellers compare James Madison to Thomas Jefferson?
(a) More market-oriented.
(b) More isolationist.
(c) Less business friendly.
(d) More protectionist.

13. In what case was expansionism restrained?
(a) Into Canada.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Into Florida.
(d) Into Mexico.

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

15. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?
(a) Toward agrarianism.
(b) Toward American isolationism.
(c) Toward Republicanism.
(d) Toward laissez-faire capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did the cost of labor have on capitalism, according to Sellers?

2. Who were the Bucktails opposed to in New York?

3. How did the Second Great Awakening affect Jackson's America, according to Sellers?

4. What sphere did NOT change under Jackson, according to Sellers?

5. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?

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