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

2. What was the major issue that raised tensions in advance of the 1828 election?

3. When did zeal for reform reach the lower classes, in Sellers's account?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conflict arose for labor in the North?

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

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

5. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

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

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

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

9. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a personality sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values do you think he holds dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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

How would you characterize the difference between regions in America? If each region were a person, how would you would you describe them? What are each region's principal desires and complexes, guilts, and compensations? What personality type is characteristic of each region?

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