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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 kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?

2. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?

3. What does Sellers say happened when northern manufacturers wanted to restrict imports with tariffs?

4. What group did northern capitalists exploit, in Sellers's account?

5. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Sellers's argument about the role of sex in capitalism?

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

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

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

6. What does Sellers say was a factor that exacerbated male sexuality in the 1820s and 30s?

7. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

8. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the contributions that came from states-rights factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to entrenched local powers and unethical traditions like slavery?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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