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

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

3. How does Sellers compare James Madison to Thomas Jefferson?
(a) More market-oriented.
(b) Less business friendly.
(c) More protectionist.
(d) More isolationist.

4. What resulted from the changes that took place under Jackson?
(a) Our modern liberal democratic state.
(b) A neo-feudalist militaristic state.
(c) A confederation of independent states.
(d) A repressive socialist regime.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?

2. What was Jackson's position before entering politics?

3. What does Sellers say the growth of American wealth resulted in?

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

5. How long did the order that came out of the Jacksonian era last, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What came out of the period Sellers covers?

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

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

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

9. What was John Calhoun's role in the development of American capitalism?

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

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