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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the purpose of Biddle's action?
(a) To make a lot of money for his investor friends.
(b) To send the economy into a tailspin.
(c) To boost the economy before elections.
(d) To spur industrial activity.

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

6. Who followed Andrew Jackson as President?
(a) John Calhoun.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Biddle.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

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

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

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

10. 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) Immigration increased.
(c) Media becomes even cheaper to produce.
(d) Novels and newspapers were widely distributed.

11. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?
(a) Cultural imperialism.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Resolution of labor conflicts.
(d) Abolition.

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

13. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?
(a) Working conditions declined.
(b) Wages did not rise as fast as capitalists' fortunes.
(c) Tariffs lowered the costs of production, driving wages down.
(d) Immigrants threatened to provide cheaper labor.

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

15. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?
(a) The antinomian movement.
(b) The Congregationalist movement.
(c) The revivalist movement.
(d) The abolition movement.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Charles Finney try to do?

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

5. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?

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