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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 Jackson think would bring financial stability back?
(a) Hard currency.
(b) Derivatives trading.
(c) Paper money.
(d) Speculating on commodity prices.

2. What step did the Treasury Department take after the economy started to react to the abolition of the Federal Bank?
(a) Controlled the money supply.
(b) Borrowed money from Amsterdam.
(c) Raised tariffs.
(d) Subsidized westward expansion.

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

4. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?
(a) They gave Georgia freedom to deal with the Indians.
(b) They said the Indians had to be removed.
(c) They said federal law prevailed.
(d) They said the Indians were U.S. citizens.

5. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?
(a) The Constitution was amended.
(b) The military was called in.
(c) Tariffs were reduced.
(d) Slavery was allowed to move into western territories.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What benefited from the emotional effects of economic stress in 1819?

4. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?

5. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

5. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

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

8. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

9. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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