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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?
(a) Remained the same.
(b) Declined by half.
(c) Doubled.
(d) Tripled.

2. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?
(a) Reaction against the Second Great Awakening.
(b) Reaction against female independence.
(c) Splinter from northern Unitarianism.
(d) Adaptation to harsh western conditions.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?
(a) Wilderness.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Pre-capitalist.
(d) Industrial capitalist.

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

10. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?
(a) Pre-marital sex.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Marital infidelity.
(d) Alcohol.

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

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

13. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?
(a) Antinomians.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Unitarians
(d) Democrats.

14. What did Charles Finney try to do?
(a) Turn sinners into businessmen.
(b) Turn capitalists into philanthropists.
(c) Turn women into preachers.
(d) Turn slaveholders into preachers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?

2. What does Sellers say was replacing agriculture in the U.S.?

3. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?

4. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?

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

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