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

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

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

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

5. What were Unitarian elites trying to combine with the modern American capitalist economy?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Romantic sentiment.
(c) European socialism.
(d) Russian totalitarianism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

3. What does Sellers say was replacing agriculture in the U.S.?

4. What was the purpose of Biddle's action?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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

6. What did the Second Great Awakening reform in addition to sex?

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

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

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

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

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