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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 was the result of the economic crash?
(a) A bountiful period.
(b) A period of austerity.
(c) A period of reinvestment.
(d) A period of inflation.

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

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

4. What did new politicians do to come into power?
(a) Attack merchants.
(b) Attack France.
(c) Attack the banks.
(d) Attack Britain.

5. What did John Calhoun support?
(a) Infrastructural expansion.
(b) States' rights.
(c) Equal distribution of wealth.
(d) Free trade.

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

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

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

9. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
(a) Commercial interests.
(b) Socialist agitators.
(c) Abolitionists.
(d) Manufacturers.

10. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?
(a) He lost a lot of money.
(b) His family lost their estate.
(c) He made a lot of money.
(d) He bought a larger house.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sellers say the Northern interests pushed for?

3. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

4. What does Sellers say Jackson learned from his mother as a child?

5. How did families change in the economic hard times?

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