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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?
(a) Adaptation to harsh western conditions.
(b) Reaction against the Second Great Awakening.
(c) Reaction against female independence.
(d) Splinter from northern Unitarianism.

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

3. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) From regionalism to nationalism.
(b) From nationalism to pro-slavery localism.
(c) From pro-slavery to anti-slavery.
(d) From pro-business to pro-regulation.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Who led South Carolina in opposition to Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
(a) Sam Houston.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) John Calhoun.
(d) Henry Clay.

8. What did new organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?
(a) Profit from the gap between democracy and capitalism.
(b) Distinguish between nationalists and merchants.
(c) Resolve the contradiction between democracy and capitalism.
(d) Expand into new territories before the federal government established rule of law there.

9. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?
(a) Raised the cost of labor for cotton processing.
(b) Raised production cotton costs.
(c) Lowered cotton production costs.
(d) Raised the cost of cotton distribution.

10. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?
(a) Their religion restrained capitalist excess.
(b) Their religion preached personal wealth.
(c) Their religion preached charity.
(d) Their religion preached tight social cohesion before individual profit.

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

12. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) The Master/Slave dialectic.
(b) Labor theory of value.
(c) Dialectic of class warfare.
(d) The economics of poverty.

13. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?
(a) Recharter it.
(b) Regulate it.
(c) Audit it.
(d) Fund it.

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

15. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?
(a) Political issues.
(b) Race issues.
(c) Social issues.
(d) Economic issues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charles Finney try to do?

2. What was the result of the railroad system, in Sellers's account?

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

4. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?

5. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?

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