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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) Dialectic of class warfare.
(b) The economics of poverty.
(c) The Master/Slave dialectic.
(d) Labor theory of value.

5. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?
(a) Female sexual liberation.
(b) The breakdown of the family.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Industrialization.

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

7. What did Biddle do in response to democratic pressure?
(a) Tighten money supply.
(b) Ease money supply.
(c) Lower tariffs.
(d) Raise interest rates.

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

9. What did new organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?
(a) Distinguish between nationalists and merchants.
(b) Profit from the gap between democracy and capitalism.
(c) Expand into new territories before the federal government established rule of law there.
(d) Resolve the contradiction between democracy and capitalism.

10. How did Andrew Jackson change his stance with regard to the Indian removal issue in Georgia?
(a) He insisted on federal coordination of policies.
(b) He allowed the military to act on its own.
(c) He insisted on the federal government's primacy.
(d) He backed states' rights.

11. What was the result of the railroad system, in Sellers's account?
(a) The U.S. saw poverty skyrocket.
(b) The U.S. became an industrial powerhouse.
(c) Wealth was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
(d) Economic equality grew to historic disproportions.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?

3. What step did the Treasury Department take after the economy started to react to the abolition of the Federal Bank?

4. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?

5. What balance did the U.S. strike with the formation of a two-party system?

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