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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?
(a) Pre-marital sex.
(b) Marital infidelity.
(c) Masturbation.
(d) Alcohol.

3. What did Robert Owen advocate?
(a) Corporations.
(b) Communes.
(c) Tribunals.
(d) Unions.

4. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?
(a) He designed it.
(b) He expanded it.
(c) He resisted it.
(d) He argued for regulating it.

5. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?
(a) The mechanicalization of sex.
(b) The celebration of sex.
(c) Repression of sex.
(d) The sterilization of sex.

6. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?
(a) Philosophical view of religion as meaning-making.
(b) Historical view of religion as an institution among institutions.
(c) Nietzsche an concept of morality as the product of class interest.
(d) Marxist concept of religion as a reaction to social trends.

7. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?
(a) Peace with France and England.
(b) Wealthy people gaining wealth through investments.
(c) Expansion into western territories.
(d) Suppression of dissent between north and south.

8. On what grounds were people opposed to public schools?
(a) Anti-democratic.
(b) Racist discrimination.
(c) Discrimination against females.
(d) Exclusivity.

9. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?
(a) A new utopia was near at hand.
(b) The world would be destroyed for mankind's sins.
(c) The millennium-long rule of Christ would begin gradually.
(d) Judgment day was imminent.

10. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?
(a) He mismanaged the monetary supply.
(b) He played his policies just right.
(c) He overplayed his hand.
(d) He neglected to consider the cost of the federal debt in debt maintenance.

11. What happened to John Calhoun's political power when Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) It went behind the scenes.
(b) It waned.
(c) It was exposed.
(d) It increased.

12. What did the antinomians believe in?
(a) Suppressing enthusiastic displays.
(b) Radical conversion experiences.
(c) Received Christianity.
(d) Strict religious practice.

13. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?
(a) Nostalgia for nature.
(b) Nationalist expansion.
(c) Retreat from economic turmoil.
(d) Anger over industrialization.

14. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?
(a) As beneath them.
(b) As the engine of regional strength.
(c) As the foundation for nationalism.
(d) As God's work.

15. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?
(a) Education.
(b) Politics.
(c) Productivity.
(d) The market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?

2. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?

3. What avenue did the Moderate Light use for pushing its agenda?

4. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?

5. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?

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