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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who followed Andrew Jackson as President?
(a) John Calhoun.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Biddle.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

2. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) The economics of poverty.
(b) Dialectic of class warfare.
(c) The Master/Slave dialectic.
(d) Labor theory of value.

3. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?
(a) Stern morality.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Sentimentalism.
(d) Traditional Christianity.

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

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

6. Where did democratic sentiment exist in the south, in Sellers's account?
(a) In the masses who did not work on plantations.
(b) In the slave holders.
(c) In the slaves.
(d) In the few urban centers.

7. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?
(a) Profitability.
(b) Emotional repression.
(c) Social mobility.
(d) Poverty.

8. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?
(a) Social issues.
(b) Political issues.
(c) Economic issues.
(d) Race issues.

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

10. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Robert Owen.
(d) John Calhoun.

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

12. How did the changes in the public school system affect American culture?
(a) Literacy skyrocketed.
(b) Economic lasses were leveled.
(c) Education was restricted to elites.
(d) Ex-slaves began to get education.

13. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?
(a) That capitalism is driven by repressed sexual energy.
(b) That capitalism thrives in repressive cultures.
(c) That capitalism leads to social repression.
(d) That capitalism liberates sexual energy.

14. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?
(a) Industrial capitalist.
(b) Wilderness.
(c) Pre-capitalist.
(d) Socialist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sellers say happened when northern manufacturers wanted to restrict imports with tariffs?

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

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

4. What does Sellers say was replacing agriculture in the U.S.?

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

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