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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 the Supreme Court effectively decide, which helped expansionism?

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

3. What kinds of positions does Sellers say became more rare in Jackson's America?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the outcome of the election of 1824.

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

3. Where else beside New York did democratic opposition to Republicans succeed?

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

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

6. Describe the Missouri Compromise.

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

8. What was the difference between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

9. What was slavery's role in the development of democratic American capitalism?

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

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

Trace three places in Sellers's book where events during the market revolution of the early 1800s parallel current events. How do the parallels play out? Where are the differences?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the contributions that came from states-rights factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to entrenched local powers and unethical traditions like slavery?

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