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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 led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?

2. How was the question of slavery's expansion into Missouri cast?

3. In what case was expansionism restrained?

4. How does Sellers say Americans reproduced in Jackson's America?

5. Where did reformers look for a model of how society could be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What historical developments disturbed the equality between Madisonian and Jeffersonian forces?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of history is The Market Revolution? What are the rules for this kind of history, and how does it differ from other kinds of history? Describe Sellers's temperament and values as a historian.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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