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Questions

1. What were the main catalysts of the market revolution? What is the relationship between the market revolution and the rise of the west?

2. How did the market revolution spark social change? In particular, how did it transform the lives of women?

3. By the mid-nineteenth century there was a ?ourishing democracy for some segments of the population. Others were excluded. Who was included and who was excluded? Why? What did political participation look like in this time period?

4. Even though most northern states had abolished slavery by the 183 Os, how is it useful to think of slavery as a national - rather than regional - economic and political system?

5. Despite unimaginable hardships, how did the enslaved maintain a sense of identity and a desire for freedom? What were some of the ways in which the enslaved resisted slavery?

6. A. What social, economic, political, and religious factors led to widespread reform movements in the nineteenth century? B. Most importantly: What were some of the major movements and goals of antebellum reformers? Who were they? What did they seek to change?

7. Why is the Civil War considered to be the first modern war?

8. How and when did the Civil War explicitly become a war to end slavery? Show less?