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

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

3. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?
(a) Anger over industrialization.
(b) Nationalist expansion.
(c) Nostalgia for nature.
(d) Retreat from economic turmoil.

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

5. What does Sellers say the Great Awakening made possible?
(a) Class warfare in the early twentieth century.
(b) Modern capitalist ethos.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Great War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?

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

3. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?

4. What was Horace Mann's relationship with the public school system?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?

5. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

7. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

9. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

10. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

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