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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the result of the bank's abolition?
(a) Depression.
(b) Inflation.
(c) Economic expansion.
(d) Higher tariffs.
2. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?
(a) The breakdown of the family.
(b) Female sexual liberation.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Urbanization.
3. 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) Controlled the money supply.
(c) Raised tariffs.
(d) Subsidized westward expansion.
4. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?
(a) Anger over industrialization.
(b) Retreat from economic turmoil.
(c) Nationalist expansion.
(d) Nostalgia for nature.
5. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?
(a) Political issues.
(b) Economic issues.
(c) Social issues.
(d) Race issues.
6. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Cultural imperialism.
(c) Resolution of labor conflicts.
(d) Abolition.
7. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?
(a) Social mobility.
(b) Emotional repression.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Profitability.
8. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?
(a) Traditional Christianity.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Stern morality.
(d) Sentimentalism.
9. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) Dialectic of class warfare.
(b) Labor theory of value.
(c) The Master/Slave dialectic.
(d) The economics of poverty.
10. How does Sellers define Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism?
(a) Anarchic American atheism.
(b) Uniquely American spirituality.
(c) Antinomian rebelliousness.
(d) Unitarian sentimentalism.
11. What was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?
(a) Immigration increased.
(b) Media becomes even cheaper to produce.
(c) Industrial jobs required reading and writing.
(d) Novels and newspapers were widely distributed.
12. What was Jackson's belief about markets?
(a) They needed heavy regulation by the government.
(b) They needed a strong central bank.
(c) They would regulate themselves.
(d) They tended to increase class inequality.
13. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?
(a) Peace west of the Appalachians.
(b) The Union.
(c) The army.
(d) Trade with England.
14. What avenue did the Moderate Light use for pushing its agenda?
(a) Church organizations.
(b) Abolition organizations.
(c) Expansionist military policies.
(d) Public school reform.
15. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?
(a) They said the Indians were U.S. citizens.
(b) They said federal law prevailed.
(c) They said the Indians had to be removed.
(d) They gave Georgia freedom to deal with the Indians.
Short Answer Questions
1. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?
2. What was the purpose of Biddle's action?
3. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?
4. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?
5. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?
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