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

2. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?

3. How was the crisis that came from South Carolina's stance averted, according to Sellers?

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

5. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

3. What was Jackson's plan for bringing stability to the economy?

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

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

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

7. Describe the formation of Jackson's cabinet.

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

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

10. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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?

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