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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did masturbation have to be restricted, according to Sellers?
(a) It sapped "vital energies."
(b) It debased the market.
(c) It created rebelliousness.
(d) It was undemocratic.

4. What did the antinomians believe in?
(a) Radical conversion experiences.
(b) Strict religious practice.
(c) Suppressing enthusiastic displays.
(d) Received Christianity.

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

6. How does Sellers define Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism?
(a) Anarchic American atheism.
(b) Uniquely American spirituality.
(c) Unitarian sentimentalism.
(d) Antinomian rebelliousness.

7. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?
(a) Reaction against female independence.
(b) Reaction against the Second Great Awakening.
(c) Splinter from northern Unitarianism.
(d) Adaptation to harsh western conditions.

8. What did new organizations try to do as they arose during the 1830s, in Sellers's account?
(a) Expand into new territories before the federal government established rule of law there.
(b) Resolve the contradiction between democracy and capitalism.
(c) Profit from the gap between democracy and capitalism.
(d) Distinguish between nationalists and merchants.

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

10. What stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) From pro-slavery to anti-slavery.
(b) From nationalism to pro-slavery localism.
(c) From pro-business to pro-regulation.
(d) From regionalism to nationalism.

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

12. Why did pre-marital sex have to be restricted?
(a) To keep men obedient.
(b) To keep women pure.
(c) To keep marriage sacred.
(d) To keep women married.

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

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

15. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?
(a) Closer to Baptists than Unitarians.
(b) On the more conservative side of the Unitarians.
(c) Between antinomians and Unitarians.
(d) On the more radical side of the antinomians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

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

3. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?

4. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?

5. What was the result of the railroad system, in Sellers's account?

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