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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. Who succeeded James Monroe in the White House?

2. What led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?

3. What was John Taylor an advocate of?

4. How were people feeling about slavery in the 1810s?

5. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Supreme Court's role in the development of American capitalism?

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

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

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

5. Who supported Thomas Jefferson's rise to power?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Argue for or against the statement that times were better in the 1830s than they are now. Support your argument with specific instances from the book and also from the present moment.

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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