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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 liberal capitalist morality like, which Sellers says was offended?

2. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?

3. Who will suffer with expanding markets?

4. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat for the democratic nomination?

5. What did the Speaker of the House under James Monroe advocate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Andrew Jackson intervened against Spanish Florida?

2. How did Andrew Jackson go about campaigning in the election of 1824, according to Sellers?

3. Where did support for Andrew Jackson come from, in Sellers's account?

4. What happened to debtors when the economy crashed, in Sellers's account?

5. What changes affected American society in the 1810s and 20s?

6. What was John Quincy Adams's role in the development of American capitalism?

7. What was Martin Van Buren's importance in opposing the Republican party?

8. What was the Republican strategy for the election of 1824?

9. Why was a paper money economy proposed, and what was its effect on American culture?

10. What role did religion play in the transformation of American culture, in Sellers's account?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the New England secession movement and the southern secession movement. How are they similar? How are they different? When did America cease to feel like one country and begin to feel like two (or more) factions pursuing their own interests? How were the divisions resolved?

Essay Topic 2

What were the southern arguments for preserving slavery? In what issues are these arguments still echoing today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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