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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 did new politicians do to come into power?

2. What did John Calhoun support?

3. What step did the Speaker of the House take to expand the American market nationwide?

4. How does Sellers describe the composition of the democratic field when Andrew Jackson was running for the democratic nomination?

5. What policy did Monroe continue, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the Missouri Compromise.

6. What was Henry Clay's role in the development of American capitalism?

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

8. What happened to the momentum Thomas Jefferson brought into office?

9. What does Sellers say about the spread of religion after the collapse of the market?

10. What was the vision toward which new Democrats wanted to take the country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the election of Andrew Jackson and the election of Barack Obama. How was the country in a similar place in 1828 and 2008? How were the situations different?

Essay Topic 3

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

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