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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 stance did John Calhoun take after Andrew Jackson was elected?

2. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?

3. What did the Moderate Light churches begin to focus on, according to Sellers?

4. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?

5. How did Southerners see labor, according to Sellers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What balance does Sellers describe the country having struck during Jackson's administration?

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

3. What role does Sellers say racism played in the development of capitalism in the first half of the 19th century?

4. What steps did Bank Chairman Biddle take to prevail against Andrew Jackson?

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

6. What was the states' rights issue in Georgia, and how was it resolved?

7. How did a particular movement ignite the mass democratic sentiment in 1828, according to Sellers?

8. What did the Second Great Awakening reform in addition to sex?

9. What does Sellers say caused the religious transformation of the early 1800s in America?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Map today's political parties to the political parties in place in 1828 or in 1846, as the Whigs emerge from the ruins of the Republican party. What factions are still in the same party? What factions are new or have split or show new loyalties?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the value of contradiction in American politics. What uses do contradictions have, and what efforts did politicians take to preserve them, instead of clarifying them? Under what conditions are contradiction and ambiguity preferable to clear laws and agreements? Under what conditions can contradictions be harmful?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the election of Andrew Jackson and the election of Barack Obama. How was the country in a similar place in 1828 and 2008? How were the situations different?

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