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

2. Who was Biddle?

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

4. What was NOT a contributing factor to the expansion of literacy in the U.S. in the 1830s?

5. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sellers say was a factor that exacerbated male sexuality in the 1820s and 30s?

6. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

7. What was the result of the abolition of the Federal Bank?

8. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?

9. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the value of the proposition that because Sellers's account largely ignores women's issues, the history is untrustworthy.

Essay Topic 2

Argue for or against the statement that times were better in the 1830s than they are now. Support your argument with specific instances from the book and also from the present moment.

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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