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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How long did the order that came out of the Jacksonian era last, according to Sellers?
(a) Until the Great War.
(b) Until the Civil War.
(c) Until World War II.
(d) Until the present.

5. How does Sellers say James Monroe responded to the expansionism in his government?
(a) Waffling support.
(b) Mild trepidations.
(c) Wholehearted enthusiasm.
(d) Strong opposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Andrew Jackson nominated for President?

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

3. What did the Bucktails accomplish in their revolt in New York?

4. Who will suffer with expanding markets?

5. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the momentum Thomas Jefferson brought into office?

2. What changes affected American society in the 1810s and 20s?

3. What was slavery's role in the development of democratic American capitalism?

4. What was the democratic stance on the money supply, as the Democrats started to come into opposition to the Republicans?

5. What were conditions like at the beginning of the period Sellers covers?

6. What was the result of America's expansion, in Sellers's account?

7. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?

8. What does Sellers say about the spread of religion after the collapse of the market?

9. What was the vision toward which new Democrats wanted to take the country?

10. What happened to debtors when the economy crashed, in Sellers's account?

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