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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. How does Sellers say the Republican pro-market forces counteracted anti-market forces?

2. How did families change in the economic hard times?

3. How does Sellers characterize the ethic Jackson got from his family?

4. How does Sellers describe the Republicanism of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

5. How does Sellers describe America at the beginning of the Jacksonian era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What came out of the period Sellers covers?

2. What period does Sellers's book cover?

3. What was the Republican strategy for the election of 1824?

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

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

8. Describe the outcome of the election of 1824.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare the New England secession movement and the southern secession movement. How are they similar? How are they different? When did America cease to feel like one country and begin to feel like two (or more) factions pursuing their own interests? How were the divisions resolved?

Essay Topic 3

How would this book be different if it were told from a woman's perspective or with a focus on women's issues? What is missing from Sellers's account of the market revolution in terms of women's issues?

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