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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gained power during the economic crash?
(a) Radical Republicans.
(b) Radical Democrats.
(c) Conservative Republicans.
(d) Moderate Democrats.

2. How did families change in the economic hard times?
(a) Families had to sell children as indentured servants.
(b) Families grew more quickly.
(c) Families did not grow as quickly.
(d) Families split apart more frequently.

3. What is the first event of 1810 Sellers describes?
(a) The rise of abolitionism.
(b) The concentration of political power in democratic states.
(c) The concentration of wealth in elite hands.
(d) The collapse of the Republican power structure.

4. Who would normally have prevented economic revolution from changing people's lives?
(a) Slaves.
(b) The manufacturers.
(c) The people.
(d) The government.

5. What faction became particularly powerful as a result of Republican policies?
(a) New York commercial interests.
(b) Southern agriculturalists.
(c) Western railroads.
(d) Northern manufacturers.

6. Who does Sellers say Jackson came to be sympathetic with after the Panic of 1819?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Slave owners.
(c) Radical Democrats.
(d) Regionalists.

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

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

9. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?
(a) Virginia.
(b) New York.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Kentucky.

10. When did the Jackson administration end?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1827.

11. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?
(a) By promising to raise tariffs.
(b) By setting the people against the elite bankers.
(c) By pitting the farmers and planters against each other.
(d) By uniting farmers and planters.

12. On what topic does Sellers say James Madison agreed with Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Free trade.
(b) Tariffs.
(c) Expansionism.
(d) Isolationism.

13. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

14. What does Sellers say happened to debtors when the economic crashed?
(a) They lost their fortunes.
(b) They were overwhelmed by depreciating currency.
(c) They were able to buy land extremely cheap.
(d) They were left with worthless promissory notes.

15. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?
(a) New York commercial interests.
(b) Manufacturers.
(c) Slave owners.
(d) Merchants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the public feel hostility toward, according to Sellers?

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

4. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

5. What was John Taylor's role in the reforms of 1810?

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