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

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

3. Who led South Carolina in opposition to Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Sam Houston.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) John Calhoun.

4. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?
(a) Derivatives trading.
(b) Speculating on commodity prices.
(c) Hard currency.
(d) Paper money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?

2. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?

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

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

5. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the result of the abolition of the Federal Bank?

2. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

3. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?

4. What steps did Bank Chairman Biddle take to prevail against Andrew Jackson?

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

6. How did the Republican party change after the "democratic thrashing" in 1828?

7. How were the reform movements applied across the classes? Were they applied to all classes equally?

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

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

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

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