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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 the liberal capitalist morality like, which Sellers says was offended?

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

3. What did new politicians do to come into power?

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

5. What does Sellers say was the result of the economic crash?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Sellers characterize the period covered in The Market Revolution?

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

9. What period does Sellers's book cover?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Where would you fall on the political spectrum during the market revolution? Whose policies would you have supported, and why, and how would you have mitigated the consequences of those policies? How would you have tried to create a different outcome?

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