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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 only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?
(a) Invest in the companies that make capitalism work for you.
(b) Return to a pastoral place as often as possible.
(c) Internalize unhealthy coping mechanisms.
(d) Invent labor-saving devices to allow more free time.

2. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?
(a) Emotional repression.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Profitability.
(d) Social mobility.

3. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?
(a) Tariffs.
(b) The deficit.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Slavery.

4. What was the result of the bank's abolition?
(a) Inflation.
(b) Higher tariffs.
(c) Economic expansion.
(d) Depression.

5. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?
(a) Ending the international slave trade.
(b) Whiskey rebellion.
(c) Segregation.
(d) The Tariff of Abominations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to John Calhoun when Andrew Jackson formed his cabinet?

2. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?

3. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?

4. What did the antinomians believe in?

5. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

2. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?

3. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?

4. What role does Sellers say racism played in the development of capitalism in the first half of the 19th century?

5. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

6. What does Sellers say about the effects of the railroad on American culture?

7. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

8. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?

9. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?

10. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

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