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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the result of the railroad system, in Sellers's account?
(a) Economic equality grew to historic disproportions.
(b) The U.S. saw poverty skyrocket.
(c) Wealth was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
(d) The U.S. became an industrial powerhouse.

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

6. How does Sellers define Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism?
(a) Antinomian rebelliousness.
(b) Unitarian sentimentalism.
(c) Anarchic American atheism.
(d) Uniquely American spirituality.

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

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

9. How did Andrew Jackson change his stance with regard to the Indian removal issue in Georgia?
(a) He backed states' rights.
(b) He insisted on the federal government's primacy.
(c) He insisted on federal coordination of policies.
(d) He allowed the military to act on its own.

10. What does Sellers say happened when northern manufacturers wanted to restrict imports with tariffs?
(a) The nation began to knit together.
(b) Anarchic forces became more powerful.
(c) The national economy began to fracture.
(d) The religious reforms lost steam.

11. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?
(a) Depreciating assets.
(b) Encouraging the concentration of wealth.
(c) Putting the nation into debt.
(d) Creating booms and busts.

12. What did South Carolina argue it could do?
(a) Negotiate treaties.
(b) Keep its own army.
(c) Determine its own tariffs.
(d) Nullify federal laws.

13. Where did democratic sentiment exist in the south, in Sellers's account?
(a) In the slaves.
(b) In the slave holders.
(c) In the masses who did not work on plantations.
(d) In the few urban centers.

14. What were Unitarian elites trying to combine with the modern American capitalist economy?
(a) Russian totalitarianism.
(b) European socialism.
(c) Romantic sentiment.
(d) Slavery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Biddle?

2. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?

3. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

4. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?

5. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?

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