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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. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?
(a) Nationalist expansion.
(b) Retreat from economic turmoil.
(c) Anger over industrialization.
(d) Nostalgia for nature.

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

3. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?
(a) Depreciating assets.
(b) Creating booms and busts.
(c) Putting the nation into debt.
(d) Encouraging the concentration of wealth.

4. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) From pro-slavery to anti-slavery.
(b) From nationalism to pro-slavery localism.
(c) From pro-business to pro-regulation.
(d) From regionalism to nationalism.

5. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?
(a) Political issues.
(b) Economic issues.
(c) Social issues.
(d) Race issues.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?

3. What did Biddle do in response to democratic pressure?

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

5. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did a particular movement ignite the mass democratic sentiment in 1828, according to Sellers?

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

4. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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

7. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

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

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

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