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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 happened to new workers in Jackson's America?

2. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?

3. Who will suffer with expanding markets?

4. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?

5. What faction found favor after James Monroe's presidency?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did American politics change as a result of the economic crash?

3. What was the result of America's expansion, in Sellers's account?

4. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?

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

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

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

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

9. What was James Monroe's role in the development of American capitalism?

10. What was the difference between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

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

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 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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