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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Politicians.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) Labor theory of value.
(b) Dialectic of class warfare.
(c) The economics of poverty.
(d) The Master/Slave dialectic.

2. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?
(a) He lost a lot of money.
(b) His family lost their estate.
(c) He made a lot of money.
(d) He bought a larger house.

3. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?
(a) Raised the cost of cotton distribution.
(b) Raised production cotton costs.
(c) Lowered cotton production costs.
(d) Raised the cost of labor for cotton processing.

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

5. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?
(a) It was undemocratic.
(b) It debased the market.
(c) It created rebelliousness.
(d) It sapped "vital energies."

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did the cost of labor have on capitalism, according to Sellers?

2. What was the condition of the U.S. in Jackson's time?

3. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?

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

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

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