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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 does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?

2. Who led South Carolina in opposition to Jackson and Martin Van Buren?

3. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?

4. What does Sellers say the Great Awakening made possible?

5. What was Jackson's belief about markets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?

2. How were the reform movements applied across the classes? Were they applied to all classes equally?

3. What does Sellers say about the effects of the railroad on American culture?

4. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

5. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

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

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

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

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

Assess Karl Marx's statement that religion is the opium of the masses against Sellers's history of the development of American capitalism. Does Sellers endorse this view? Does he qualify it?

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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