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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 was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?
(a) Protectionism and subsidization.
(b) Military aggression against Spain in Florida.
(c) Lower tariffs and wider international trade.
(d) Greater pressure to permit slavery to continue.

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

3. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?
(a) Declined by half.
(b) Remained the same.
(c) Doubled.
(d) Tripled.

4. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) The market.

5. What was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?
(a) Immigration increased.
(b) Media becomes even cheaper to produce.
(c) Novels and newspapers were widely distributed.
(d) Industrial jobs required reading and writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?

2. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?

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

4. What did Robert Owen advocate?

5. What did the antinomians believe in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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

9. What forces took sides around slavery?

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

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