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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 pressed for the First Bank of the United States?
(a) Northern manufacturers.
(b) Western railroads.
(c) Southern agriculturalists.
(d) New York commercial interests.

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

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

4. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) New York.
(d) Virginia.

5. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?

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

3. What does Sellers say happened to new workers in Jackson's America?

4. What led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?

5. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the difference between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

6. What was John Quincy Adams's role in the development of American capitalism?

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

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

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

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

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