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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 was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?

2. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

3. Who was Biddle?

4. What did South Carolina argue it could do?

5. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What forces took sides around slavery?

4. What steps did Bank Chairman Biddle take to prevail against Andrew Jackson?

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

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

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

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

9. How did a particular movement ignite the mass democratic sentiment in 1828, according to Sellers?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Write a personality sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values do you think he holds dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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