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

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

3. What did Charles Finney try to do?
(a) Turn sinners into businessmen.
(b) Turn women into preachers.
(c) Turn capitalists into philanthropists.
(d) Turn slaveholders into preachers.

4. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Unitarians
(c) Democrats.
(d) Antinomians.

5. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?
(a) Resolution of labor conflicts.
(b) Cultural imperialism.
(c) Abolition.
(d) Isolationism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?

2. What was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?

3. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?

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

5. What did the Supreme Court say with regard to Jackson's policy about the Indians in Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the Second Great Awakening reform in addition to sex?

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

4. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

6. What was the result of the abolition of the Federal Bank?

7. What forces took sides around slavery?

8. What was Andrew Jackson's relationship with the Federal Bank?

9. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

10. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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