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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. How did the changes in the public school system affect American culture?

2. What is the only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?

3. What did crusaders NOT campaign for after the economic stress of 1819?

4. What did South Carolina's stance threaten, in Jackson's eyes?

5. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

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

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

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

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

6. What forces took sides around slavery?

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

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

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

10. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Map today's political parties to the political parties in place in 1828 or in 1846, as the Whigs emerge from the ruins of the Republican party. What factions are still in the same party? What factions are new or have split or show new loyalties?

Essay Topic 2

Assess Karl Marx's statement that religion is the opium of the masses against Sellers's history of the development of American capitalism. Does Sellers endorse this view? Does he qualify it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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