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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 Charles Finney try to do?

2. What benefited from the emotional effects of economic stress in 1819?

3. What was the result of increasing demands on northern manufacturers, according to Sellers?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Map today's political parties to the political parties in place in 1828 or in 1846, as the Whigs emerge from the ruins of the Republican party. What factions are still in the same party? What factions are new or have split or show new loyalties?

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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