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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 Jackson think would bring financial stability back?

2. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?

3. Which of these was NOT a problem Andrew Jackson saw in the National Bank?

4. What were Unitarian elites trying to combine with the modern American capitalist economy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What forces took sides around slavery?

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

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

10. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a personality sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values do you think he holds dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Assess the statement that all history is properly biography. To what extent is the action described in The Market Revolution the sum of individual actions? To what extent is it the result of some other entity, such as classes, parties, economies, or "spirits" like Hegel's World Spirit?

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