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

2. What did Robert Owen advocate?
(a) Tribunals.
(b) Communes.
(c) Unions.
(d) Corporations.

3. Who does Sellers say found New Light theology too radical?
(a) Antinomians.
(b) Southern New England Congregationalists.
(c) Southern Baptists.
(d) Unitarians.

4. Who was Biddle?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Chairman of the Federal Bank.
(c) Republican Whip.
(d) Speaker of the House.

5. What did South Carolina argue it could do?
(a) Negotiate treaties.
(b) Nullify federal laws.
(c) Determine its own tariffs.
(d) Keep its own army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did pre-marital sex have to be restricted?

2. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?

3. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

4. Who followed Andrew Jackson as President?

5. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

8. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

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

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