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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What force does Sellers say created political pressure from the South?
(a) Manufacturers.
(b) Cotton industry.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Elite investors.

2. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) The breakdown of the family.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Female sexual liberation.

3. What did the First Bank of the United States do to the economy?
(a) Tighten credit.
(b) Regulate markets.
(c) Increase the amount of currency.
(d) Devalue currency.

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

5. How was the question of slavery's expansion into Missouri cast?
(a) As an economic issue.
(b) As a fight over states' rights.
(c) As a cultural fight to the death.
(d) As a human rights issue.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did consumerism change as a result of the financial crash?

2. Where was Andrew Jackson nominated for President?

3. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?

4. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?

5. What did new politicians do to come into power?

(see the answer key)

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