Is this an open book test?

A week ago NewMexiKen posted some of the mock exam in American Economic History at that football school, Cal Berkeley.

Here’s a link to Professor DeLong’s actual midterm if you’d like to take the test.

If you’re too rushed to click, try these one-paragraph discussions:

2. Were there important economic causes of the Civil War? If there were, what were they?

3. Why was America a relatively equal country (for white guys) until after the Civil War? Why did it then become an unequal country in the next half-century?