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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 interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?
(a) Their religion preached charity.
(b) Their religion restrained capitalist excess.
(c) Their religion preached tight social cohesion before individual profit.
(d) Their religion preached personal wealth.
2. What was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?
(a) Greater pressure to permit slavery to continue.
(b) Military aggression against Spain in Florida.
(c) Protectionism and subsidization.
(d) Lower tariffs and wider international trade.
3. What was the result of the railroad system, in Sellers's account?
(a) Wealth was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
(b) The U.S. became an industrial powerhouse.
(c) Economic equality grew to historic disproportions.
(d) The U.S. saw poverty skyrocket.
4. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?
(a) He overplayed his hand.
(b) He played his policies just right.
(c) He neglected to consider the cost of the federal debt in debt maintenance.
(d) He mismanaged the monetary supply.
5. What did David Ricardo theorize?
(a) The economics of poverty.
(b) The Master/Slave dialectic.
(c) Labor theory of value.
(d) Dialectic of class warfare.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?
2. What were Unitarian elites trying to combine with the modern American capitalist economy?
3. Where does Sellers say the religious movement in the 19th century originated?
4. What is the only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?
5. Who was Biddle?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?
2. What conflict arose for labor in the North?
3. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?
4. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?
5. How did the Republican party change after the "democratic thrashing" in 1828?
6. What did the Second Great Awakening reform in addition to sex?
7. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?
8. What is Sellers's argument about the role of sex in capitalism?
9. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?
10. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?
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