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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 crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?

2. What does Sellers say happened when northern manufacturers wanted to restrict imports with tariffs?

3. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?

4. What did Biddle do in response to democratic pressure?

5. What did the Great Awakening move away from, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What forces took sides around slavery?

6. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

7. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

8. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?

9. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the New England secession movement and the southern secession movement. How are they similar? How are they different? When did America cease to feel like one country and begin to feel like two (or more) factions pursuing their own interests? How were the divisions resolved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare the election of Andrew Jackson and the election of Barack Obama. How was the country in a similar place in 1828 and 2008? How were the situations different?

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