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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Crisis of 1819.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?
(a) Racism.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Planters' profits.

2. Where did reformers look for a model of how society could be?
(a) Government structures from England.
(b) Utopian theories.
(c) The institutions that were formed in the French Revolution.
(d) New forms of radical democratic institutions.

3. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?
(a) Unskilled labor positions.
(b) Mercantile positions.
(c) Management positions.
(d) Apprenticeship positions.

4. What was the condition of the U.S. in Jackson's time?
(a) Mostly agricultural territory.
(b) Mostly settled territory.
(c) Mostly open territory.
(d) Mostly Eastern seaboard territory.

5. What kind of political picture did Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans espouse?
(a) International socialism.
(b) Technological capitalism.
(c) Agricultural pre-capitalism.
(d) Feudalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the liberal capitalist morality like, which Sellers says was offended?

2. What did the Supreme Court effectively decide, which helped expansionism?

3. When did the Jackson administration end?

4. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?

5. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?

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