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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
(a) Commercial interests.
(b) Socialist agitators.
(c) Abolitionists.
(d) Manufacturers.

2. What does Sellers say Jackson learned from his mother as a child?
(a) Get ahead.
(b) Defend yourself.
(c) Never tell a lie.
(d) Do the right thing.

3. How does Sellers characterize labor in Jackson's America?
(a) Organized.
(b) Rare.
(c) Inexpensive.
(d) Expensive.

4. What does Sellers say would be the result of expanding markets?
(a) Distribution of wealth.
(b) Proletarian uprisings.
(c) Concentration of wealth.
(d) Restricting the creation of wealth.

5. How does Sellers say Americans reproduced in Jackson's America?
(a) Slowly.
(b) Deliberately.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Steadily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?

2. Who brought Thomas Jefferson to power?

3. What aspect of slavery offended liberal capitalist bourgeois morality, in Sellers' account?

4. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?

5. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?

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