Q Please answer only one question (250 words minimum) and respond to two other posts (50 words minimum for participation point-- 100 to 150 for content points)! Discussion Questions: 1. How does Chauncey Jerome’s life encapsulate the major changes that occurred in this period? How can his life stand as a symbol of the changes discussed in this chapter? 2. What evidence is there that the period from 1815 1860 was a time of heightened anxiety in American life? What were the causes of this anxiety? 3. List three ways that the development of a national market changed American society after 1815. Did these changes make American society more open than before? What does the phrase “opening of America” mean? 4. Explain the impact of the market economy on four of the following Americans: the mountain men, a Lowell mill girl, a Lynn shoemaker, a farmer, Chauncey Jerome. 5. What is the difference between social and geographic mobility? How were these related after 1815? 6. The text declares, “The creation of a domestic market, the development of cheap transportation, the rise of cities, and the availability of capital and credit all stimulated the shift to factory production.” Choose three of these factors and explain how they contributed to the rise of factories. 7. Give three ways that the Jacksonian era was, and three ways that it was not, an era of the common people. On the whole, which of the two arguments do you think was more important in the Jacksonian era? 8. How did Andrew Jackson change the office of the presidency? Of the different changes you describe, which do you think was the most important? 9. Which of the two major political parties responded most favorably to the growing market economy? Give three examples of how that party showed its support. 10. List three political techniques employed by Franklin Plummer of Mississippi that illustrated the new democratic political system. In what sense could he be considered a product of democracy? 11. Give three examples of the rising tide of racism among white Americans during the Jacksonian era. Why do you think racism increased during an era when democratic values were praised?