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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?
(a) The revivalist movement.
(b) The antinomian movement.
(c) The abolition movement.
(d) The Congregationalist movement.

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

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

4. What did the antinomians believe in?
(a) Strict religious practice.
(b) Suppressing enthusiastic displays.
(c) Radical conversion experiences.
(d) Received Christianity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?

2. How did the changes in the public school system affect American culture?

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

4. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

2. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

3. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?

4. What is Sellers's argument about the role of sex in capitalism?

5. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?

6. What was Andrew Jackson's relationship with the Federal Bank?

7. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?

8. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

9. What role does Sellers say racism played in the development of capitalism in the first half of the 19th century?

10. What does Sellers say about the effects of the railroad on American culture?

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