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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 neglected to consider the cost of the federal debt in debt maintenance.
(c) He overplayed his hand.
(d) He played his policies just right.

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

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

4. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?
(a) Peace west of the Appalachians.
(b) The army.
(c) Trade with England.
(d) The Union.

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

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

7. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?
(a) Repression of sex.
(b) The sterilization of sex.
(c) The mechanicalization of sex.
(d) The celebration of sex.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?
(a) Military aggression against Spain in Florida.
(b) Greater pressure to permit slavery to continue.
(c) Protectionism and subsidization.
(d) Lower tariffs and wider international trade.

14. How did the changes in the public school system affect American culture?
(a) Economic lasses were leveled.
(b) Ex-slaves began to get education.
(c) Literacy skyrocketed.
(d) Education was restricted to elites.

15. What was Jackson's belief about markets?
(a) They needed heavy regulation by the government.
(b) They would regulate themselves.
(c) They needed a strong central bank.
(d) They tended to increase class inequality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?

2. What was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?

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

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

5. What is the only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?

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