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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sellers say the Great Awakening made possible?
(a) The Great War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) Modern capitalist ethos.
(d) Class warfare in the early twentieth century.

3. 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 backed states' rights.
(d) He insisted on the federal government's primacy.

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

5. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?
(a) He designed it.
(b) He expanded it.
(c) He argued for regulating it.
(d) He resisted it.

6. What does Sellers say happened when northern manufacturers wanted to restrict imports with tariffs?
(a) Anarchic forces became more powerful.
(b) The nation began to knit together.
(c) The religious reforms lost steam.
(d) The national economy began to fracture.

7. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?
(a) They said the Indians had to be removed.
(b) They gave Georgia freedom to deal with the Indians.
(c) They said federal law prevailed.
(d) They said the Indians were U.S. citizens.

8. 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) Subsidized westward expansion.
(c) Controlled the money supply.
(d) Raised tariffs.

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

10. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Cultural imperialism.
(d) Resolution of labor conflicts.

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

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

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

14. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?
(a) Peace with France and England.
(b) Wealthy people gaining wealth through investments.
(c) Suppression of dissent between north and south.
(d) Expansion into western territories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charles Finney try to do?

2. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?

3. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

4. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?

5. What happened to John Calhoun's political power when Andrew Jackson was elected?

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