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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. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?

2. What kind of eschatology did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins preach?

3. What theory of Sellers's is expounded in Chapter 8, Ethos vs. Eros?

4. Who delivered this result for the northern manufacturers?

5. What was the cause that created regional tensions Jackson and Martin Van Buren had to quell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sellers say was a factor that exacerbated male sexuality in the 1820s and 30s?

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

3. What was Jonathan Edwards's role in the reformation of Christianity in America?

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

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

6. What were the main parties reforming American religion, in Sellers's account?

7. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

8. What forces took sides around slavery?

9. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

10. What were women's roles in the religious transformation of American culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the contributions that came from states-rights factions during the market revolution. Did they make America a better place, or did they enslave it to entrenched local powers and unethical traditions like slavery?

Essay Topic 3

What were the southern arguments for preserving slavery? In what issues are these arguments still echoing today?

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