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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 result of the bank's abolition?

2. Where did democratic sentiment exist in the south, in Sellers's account?

3. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?

4. What condition was the South in by the mid-1820s?

5. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sellers's argument about the role of sex in capitalism?

2. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

3. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

4. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

5. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?

6. How did a particular movement ignite the mass democratic sentiment in 1828, according to Sellers?

7. What steps did Bank Chairman Biddle take to prevail against Andrew Jackson?

8. What was Andrew Jackson's relationship with the Federal Bank?

9. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

10. What role does Sellers say racism played in the development of capitalism in the first half of the 19th century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Evaluate the value of a central federal bank, as evidenced by the events Sellers describes in The Market Revolution. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Would you argue in favor of or against a Federal Bank?

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