Essay Question 1: Explain the impact of the market economy on nineteenth-century America.

Essay Question 2: How did the institution of slavery change after the American Revolution? Describe both the lives of slaves and the ways that slaves resisted slavery.

Essay Question 3: Which of the following issues do you feel were most central to provoking civil war: the debate over slavery, the debate over states’ rights, or the growing economic and social differences between North and South? Defend your position by discussing specific events from the 1850s.