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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 Jackson's position before entering politics?

2. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?

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

4. Who does Sellers say Jackson came to be sympathetic with after the Panic of 1819?

5. What was DeWitt Clinton's role in the Republican party?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the democratic stance on the money supply, as the Democrats started to come into opposition to the Republicans?

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

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

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

10. What were conditions like at the beginning of the period Sellers covers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the contributions that came from nationalist factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to special interests and elites?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Assess the value of the proposition that because Sellers's account largely ignores women's issues, the history is untrustworthy.

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