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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 cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?

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

3. How did Andrew Jackson change his stance with regard to the Indian removal issue in Georgia?

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

5. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What forces took sides around slavery?

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

5. How were the reform movements applied across the classes? Were they applied to all classes equally?

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

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

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

9. What does Sellers say about the effects of the railroad on American culture?

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

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

Trace three places in Sellers's book where events during the market revolution of the early 1800s parallel current events. How do the parallels play out? Where are the differences?

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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