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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sellers characterize Jackson?
(a) Conservative bureaucrat.
(b) Devoted regionalist.
(c) Ardent nationalist.
(d) Anti-intellectual rabble-rouser.

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

4. Who were the Bucktails opposed to in New York?
(a) Southern manufacturers.
(b) The Republican establishment.
(c) The democratic elites.
(d) The federal government.

5. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?
(a) Toward agrarianism.
(b) Toward Republicanism.
(c) Toward laissez-faire capitalism.
(d) Toward American isolationism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did things change for political elites, according to Sellers?

4. How does Sellers characterize labor in Jackson's America?

5. In what case was expansionism restrained?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the democratic stance on the money supply, as the Democrats started to come into opposition to the Republicans?

2. What does Sellers say about the spread of religion after the collapse of the market?

3. What was the Supreme Court's role in the development of American capitalism?

4. Where else beside New York did democratic opposition to Republicans succeed?

5. What was Henry Clay's role in the development of American capitalism?

6. What was James Monroe's role in the development of American capitalism?

7. What was the Republican strategy for the election of 1824?

8. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?

9. What was slavery's role in the development of democratic American capitalism?

10. How did American politics change as a result of the economic crash?

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