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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. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?

2. What does Sellers say happened to debtors when the economic crashed?

3. How does Sellers compare James Madison to Thomas Jefferson?

4. According to Sellers, what changed the cost of labor, in Jackson's America?

5. What was the liberal capitalist morality like, which Sellers says was offended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role did religion play in the transformation of American culture, in Sellers's account?

2. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?

3. What was Henry Clay's role in the development of American capitalism?

4. What period does Sellers's book cover?

5. What happened to debtors when the economy crashed, in Sellers's account?

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

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

8. How does Sellers characterize the period covered in The Market Revolution?

9. What changes affected American society in the 1810s and 20s?

10. Where else beside New York did democratic opposition to Republicans succeed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace three places in Sellers's book where events during the market revolution of the early 1800s parallel current events. How do the parallels play out? Where are the differences?

Essay Topic 2

Map today's political parties to the political parties in place in 1828 or in 1846, as the Whigs emerge from the ruins of the Republican party. What factions are still in the same party? What factions are new or have split or show new loyalties?

Essay Topic 3

How would this book be different if it were told from a woman's perspective or with a focus on women's issues? What is missing from Sellers's account of the market revolution in terms of women's issues?

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