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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. Which interests did the Speaker of the House want to strength?
2. Who was nicknamed Old Hickory?
3. What was John Taylor an advocate of?
4. What factory work does Sellers say became much more efficient in Jackson's America?
5. To what does Sellers attribute the rise in democratic sentiment?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did American politics change as a result of the economic crash?
2. What happened to the momentum Thomas Jefferson brought into office?
3. How does Sellers characterize the period covered in The Market Revolution?
4. What was John Calhoun's role in the development of American capitalism?
5. What historical developments disturbed the equality between Madisonian and Jeffersonian forces?
6. What were conditions like at the beginning of the period Sellers covers?
7. How did Andrew Jackson go about campaigning in the election of 1824, according to Sellers?
8. What role did religion play in the transformation of American culture, in Sellers's account?
9. What was the democratic stance on the money supply, as the Democrats started to come into opposition to the Republicans?
10. What was the vision toward which new Democrats wanted to take the country?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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