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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. Why did pre-marital sex have to be restricted?
(a) To keep marriage sacred.
(b) To keep men obedient.
(c) To keep women pure.
(d) To keep women married.

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

3. 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.

4. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?
(a) It debased the market.
(b) It sapped "vital energies."
(c) It was undemocratic.
(d) It created rebelliousness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?

2. What did the antinomians believe in?

3. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?

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

5. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

2. What does Sellers say was a factor that exacerbated male sexuality in the 1820s and 30s?

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

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

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

6. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

7. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

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

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

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