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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sellers characterize labor in Jackson's America?

2. Who became Speaker of the House under James Monroe?

3. Whom did Andrew Jackson oppose in battle?

4. How did consumerism change as a result of the financial crash?

5. What was John Taylor an advocate of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

2. What was the result of America's expansion, in Sellers's account?

3. What happened when Andrew Jackson intervened against Spanish Florida?

4. Who supported Thomas Jefferson's rise to power?

5. What was the Supreme Court's role in the development of American capitalism?

6. What was John Calhoun's role in the development of American capitalism?

7. What was Martin Van Buren's importance in opposing the Republican party?

8. How did American politics change as a result of the economic crash?

9. What was the Republican strategy for the election of 1824?

10. What was slavery's role in the development of democratic American capitalism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where would you fall on the political spectrum during the market revolution? Whose policies would you have supported, and why, and how would you have mitigated the consequences of those policies? How would you have tried to create a different outcome?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the New England secession movement and the southern secession movement. How are they similar? How are they different? When did America cease to feel like one country and begin to feel like two (or more) factions pursuing their own interests? How were the divisions resolved?

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