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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. Where does Sellers situate Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins?

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

3. On what grounds were people opposed to public schools?

4. What did Congress have to do to the Federal Bank from time to time?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the beginning of the public school movement.

4. What coalition formed to bring Jackson into power?

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

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

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

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

9. What happened with the "Tariff of Abominations"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare the New England secession movement and the southern secession movement. How are they similar? How are they different? When did America cease to feel like one country and begin to feel like two (or more) factions pursuing their own interests? How were the divisions resolved?

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