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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 was the result of the bank's abolition?

2. What did the Moderate Light forces urge in the 1830s?

3. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?

4. What does Sellers say Mormonism resulted from?

5. What does Sellers contrast with the Unitarian movement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How were the reform movements applied across the classes? Were they applied to all classes equally?

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

5. What forces took sides around slavery?

6. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

8. What was Andrew Jackson's relationship with the Federal Bank?

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

10. What does Sellers say about the effects of the railroad on American culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where would you fall on the political spectrum during the market revolution? Whose policies would you have supported, and why, and how would you have mitigated the consequences of those policies? How would you have tried to create a different outcome?

Essay Topic 2

Assess the value of the proposition that because Sellers's account largely ignores women's issues, the history is untrustworthy.

Essay Topic 3

Argue for or against the statement that times were better in the 1830s than they are now. Support your argument with specific instances from the book and also from the present moment.

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