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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 long did the order that came out of the Jacksonian era last, according to Sellers?
2. Who brought Thomas Jefferson to power?
3. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
4. What happened to Jackson during the panic of 1819?
5. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sellers characterize the period covered in The Market Revolution?
2. What was the result of America's expansion, in Sellers's account?
3. What historical developments disturbed the equality between Madisonian and Jeffersonian forces?
4. How did elites create a favorable environment for themselves, in Sellers's account?
5. How did Andrew Jackson go about campaigning in the election of 1824, according to Sellers?
6. Where else beside New York did democratic opposition to Republicans succeed?
7. What role did religion play in the transformation of American culture, in Sellers's account?
8. What happened to debtors when the economy crashed, in Sellers's account?
9. Why was a paper money economy proposed, and what was its effect on American culture?
10. What was John Calhoun'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
Assess the statement that all history is properly biography. To what extent is the action described in The Market Revolution the sum of individual actions? To what extent is it the result of some other entity, such as classes, parties, economies, or "spirits" like Hegel's World Spirit?
Essay Topic 3
Map today's political parties to the political parties in place in 1828 or in 1846, as the Whigs emerge from the ruins of the Republican party. What factions are still in the same party? What factions are new or have split or show new loyalties?
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