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

2. How does Sellers characterize Jackson?
(a) Conservative bureaucrat.
(b) Ardent nationalist.
(c) Anti-intellectual rabble-rouser.
(d) Devoted regionalist.

3. How many votes did Andrew Jackson win the runoff by?
(a) One.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Thirty-two.
(d) Twelve.

4. Which group was on the decline by the time Monroe became president?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Manufacturers.
(d) Investors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?

2. What does Sellers say happened to farmers during the economic crash?

3. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?

4. What did new politicians do to come into power?

5. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was a paper money economy proposed, and what was its effect on American culture?

2. What was the Republican strategy for the election of 1824?

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

4. What was Henry Clay's role in the development of American capitalism?

5. Who supported Thomas Jefferson's rise to power?

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

7. What happened when Andrew Jackson intervened against Spanish Florida?

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

9. What role did religion play in the transformation of American culture, in Sellers's account?

10. What was James Monroe's role in the development of American capitalism?

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