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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?
(a) Sentimentalism.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Stern morality.
(d) Traditional Christianity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?
(a) Early 1820s.
(b) Late 1820s.
(c) Mid 1820s.
(d) 1830s.

15. What happened to John Calhoun when Andrew Jackson formed his cabinet?
(a) He was celebrated.
(b) He was entrenched.
(c) He was isolated.
(d) He was ruined.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?

3. What was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?

4. What did South Carolina argue it could do?

5. What group did northern capitalists exploit, in Sellers's account?

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