View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John Taylor an advocate of?

2. Who were the Bucktails opposed to in New York?

3. How were people feeling about slavery in the 1810s?

4. Who does Sellers say will subvert democratic sentiment if markets expand?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What period does Sellers's book cover?

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

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

6. What historical developments disturbed the equality between Madisonian and Jeffersonian forces?

7. What was the democratic stance on the money supply, as the Democrats started to come into opposition to the Republicans?

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

9. What does Sellers say about the spread of religion after the collapse of the market?

10. How did Andrew Jackson go about campaigning in the election of 1824, according to Sellers?

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

What were the southern arguments for preserving slavery? In what issues are these arguments still echoing today?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 741 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample