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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 Jackson learned from his mother as a child?
2. What did John Calhoun support?
3. What direction does Sellers say the political parties moved in as a result of the 1810 economic crash?
4. Who became Speaker of the House under James Monroe?
5. Who would normally have prevented economic revolution from changing people's lives?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Andrew Jackson go about campaigning in the election of 1824, according to Sellers?
2. What happened to debtors when the economy crashed, in Sellers's account?
3. What came out of the period Sellers covers?
4. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?
5. What does Sellers say about the spread of religion after the collapse of the market?
6. What was slavery's role in the development of democratic American capitalism?
7. Describe the outcome of the election of 1824.
8. What was the Supreme Court's role in the development of American capitalism?
9. What was the vision toward which new Democrats wanted to take the country?
10. What happened to the momentum Thomas Jefferson brought into office?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the contributions that came from nationalist factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to special interests and elites?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the value of contradiction in American politics. What uses do contradictions have, and what efforts did politicians take to preserve them, instead of clarifying them? Under what conditions are contradiction and ambiguity preferable to clear laws and agreements? Under what conditions can contradictions be harmful?
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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