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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) John Calhoun.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Robert Owen.

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

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

8. What balance did the U.S. strike with the formation of a two-party system?
(a) Between hard currency and paper money.
(b) Between modern campaigning and grass-roots politicking.
(c) Between capitalism and democracy.
(d) Between pro-slavery and abolition.

9. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?
(a) The military was called in.
(b) Slavery was allowed to move into western territories.
(c) Tariffs were reduced.
(d) The Constitution was amended.

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

11. What avenue did the Moderate Light use for pushing its agenda?
(a) Expansionist military policies.
(b) Public school reform.
(c) Abolition organizations.
(d) Church organizations.

12. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Politics.
(c) The market.
(d) Education.

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

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

15. What is the only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?
(a) Internalize unhealthy coping mechanisms.
(b) Invent labor-saving devices to allow more free time.
(c) Invest in the companies that make capitalism work for you.
(d) Return to a pastoral place as often as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the antinomians believe in?

2. What did new organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?

3. What did Biddle do in response to democratic pressure?

4. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?

5. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

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