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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 South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?

2. What is the side effect of economic stress, according to Sellers?

3. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?

4. How does Sellers define Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism?

5. What was the benefit for which the country was suffering inflation, monetary instability, debt, and the boom-bust cycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?

2. What was Jackson's plan for bringing stability to the economy?

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

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

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

6. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

7. What did the Second Great Awakening reform in addition to sex?

8. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

9. How did the Republican party change after the "democratic thrashing" in 1828?

10. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the contributions that came from nationalist factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to special interests and elites?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of history is The Market Revolution? What are the rules for this kind of history, and how does it differ from other kinds of history? Describe Sellers's temperament and values as a historian.

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