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

2. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?
(a) He expanded it.
(b) He designed it.
(c) He resisted it.
(d) He argued for regulating it.

3. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?
(a) Immigrants threatened to provide cheaper labor.
(b) Tariffs lowered the costs of production, driving wages down.
(c) Wages did not rise as fast as capitalists' fortunes.
(d) Working conditions declined.

4. What did Biddle do in response to democratic pressure?
(a) Lower tariffs.
(b) Tighten money supply.
(c) Raise interest rates.
(d) Ease money supply.

5. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?
(a) As beneath them.
(b) As the engine of regional strength.
(c) As the foundation for nationalism.
(d) As God's work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?

3. How did Andrew Jackson change his stance with regard to the Indian removal issue in Georgia?

4. What did Jackson think would bring financial stability back?

5. What did South Carolina argue it could do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What forces took sides around slavery?

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

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

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

9. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

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

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