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

2. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?
(a) Railroads.
(b) Cotton industry.
(c) Elite investors.
(d) Manufacturers.

3. How did things change for political elites, according to Sellers?
(a) They paid higher taxes.
(b) Their property was nationalized.
(c) They were pilloried.
(d) They faced new regulations.

4. What prevented Andrew Jackson's censure?
(a) His distance from Washington D.C.
(b) His losses in Missouri.
(c) His success in Florida.
(d) His popularity.

5. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?
(a) Financial.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Mercantile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the condition of the U.S. in Jackson's time?

2. Who felt threatened by the market revolution, according to Sellers?

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

4. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?

5. Where did reformers look for a model of how society could be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What period does Sellers's book cover?

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

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

6. Where else beside New York did democratic opposition to Republicans succeed?

7. What was Martin Van Buren's importance in opposing the Republican party?

8. What historical developments disturbed the equality between Madisonian and Jeffersonian forces?

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

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

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