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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was Biddle?
(a) Speaker of the House.
(b) Republican Whip.
(c) Chairman of the Federal Bank.
(d) Secretary of Defense.

4. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?
(a) It was undemocratic.
(b) It debased the market.
(c) It created rebelliousness.
(d) It sapped "vital energies."

5. What avenue did the Moderate Light use for pushing its agenda?
(a) Expansionist military policies.
(b) Abolition organizations.
(c) Public school reform.
(d) Church organizations.

6. What does Sellers say the Great Awakening made possible?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Great War.
(c) Modern capitalist ethos.
(d) Class warfare in the early twentieth century.

7. What was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?
(a) Industrial jobs required reading and writing.
(b) Novels and newspapers were widely distributed.
(c) Media becomes even cheaper to produce.
(d) Immigration increased.

8. Who does Sellers say found New Light theology too radical?
(a) Antinomians.
(b) Unitarians.
(c) Southern New England Congregationalists.
(d) Southern Baptists.

9. What step did the Treasury Department take after the economy started to react to the abolition of the Federal Bank?
(a) Borrowed money from Amsterdam.
(b) Subsidized westward expansion.
(c) Raised tariffs.
(d) Controlled the money supply.

10. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?
(a) Peace west of the Appalachians.
(b) Trade with England.
(c) The Union.
(d) The army.

11. Why did pre-marital sex have to be restricted?
(a) To keep women pure.
(b) To keep marriage sacred.
(c) To keep men obedient.
(d) To keep women married.

12. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?
(a) They said the Indians had to be removed.
(b) They said the Indians were U.S. citizens.
(c) They said federal law prevailed.
(d) They gave Georgia freedom to deal with the Indians.

13. What group did northern capitalists exploit, in Sellers's account?
(a) Germans.
(b) Irish.
(c) Hispanics.
(d) Blacks.

14. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?
(a) Hard currency.
(b) Speculating on commodity prices.
(c) Derivatives trading.
(d) Paper money.

15. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?
(a) Wilderness.
(b) Pre-capitalist.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Industrial capitalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did South Carolina argue it could do?

2. What benefited from the emotional effects of economic stress in 1819?

3. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?

4. On what grounds were people opposed to public schools?

5. What does Sellers say was replacing agriculture in the U.S.?

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