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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Hard Times, Hard Feelings, Hard Money.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?
(a) Exploitation of workers by corporations.
(b) Equilibrium between landholders and workers.
(c) Growth of corporations with cheap labor.
(d) Powerful landholders controlled cheap labor.

2. What effect did the cost of labor have on capitalism, according to Sellers?
(a) Prevented the consolidation of profits.
(b) Fostered the organization of corporations.
(c) Distributed profits.
(d) Prevented organization of corporations.

3. Who does Sellers say will subvert democratic sentiment if markets expand?
(a) Cotton producers.
(b) Career politicians.
(c) Manufacturers.
(d) Elite lawyers.

4. Where else beside New York did political parties accomplish revolutions?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) South Carolina.

5. How did consumerism change as a result of the financial crash?
(a) Focus on imports.
(b) Focus on sheer survival.
(c) Focus on cheap goods.
(d) Focus on home-made crafts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sellers say James Madison's Republicanism emphasizes?

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

3. What resulted from the changes that took place under Jackson?

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

5. Who will suffer with expanding markets?

(see the answer key)

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