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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 crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?
(a) Marital infidelity.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Pre-marital sex.

2. How did the desire of Northern manufacturers to restrict imports affect Southern planters?
(a) Raised the cost of labor for cotton processing.
(b) Lowered cotton production costs.
(c) Raised production cotton costs.
(d) Raised the cost of cotton distribution.

3. On what grounds were people opposed to public schools?
(a) Racist discrimination.
(b) Exclusivity.
(c) Discrimination against females.
(d) Anti-democratic.

4. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?
(a) Judgment day was imminent.
(b) A new utopia was near at hand.
(c) The world would be destroyed for mankind's sins.
(d) The millennium-long rule of Christ would begin gradually.

5. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Traditional Christianity.
(c) Stern morality.
(d) Sentimentalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sellers define Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism?

2. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?

3. Who was Biddle?

4. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?

5. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

3. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

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

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

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

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

8. What was Jackson's plan for bringing stability to the economy?

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

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

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