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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 does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?
(a) Splinter from northern Unitarianism.
(b) Adaptation to harsh western conditions.
(c) Reaction against female independence.
(d) Reaction against the Second Great Awakening.

2. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?
(a) 1830s.
(b) Late 1820s.
(c) Early 1820s.
(d) Mid 1820s.

3. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Female sexual liberation.
(d) The breakdown of the family.

4. What happened to John Calhoun when Andrew Jackson formed his cabinet?
(a) He was ruined.
(b) He was isolated.
(c) He was entrenched.
(d) He was celebrated.

5. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?
(a) Tariffs.
(b) The deficit.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Isolationism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?

2. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?

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

4. What did new organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

4. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

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

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

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

8. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

9. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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