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

2. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?

3. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?

4. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?

5. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?

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

3. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?

4. What was Jackson's plan for bringing stability to the economy?

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

6. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

7. What forces took sides around slavery?

8. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

9. How did the Republican party change after the "democratic thrashing" in 1828?

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

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

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?

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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