Answer any FIVE of the following questions. Write a full paragraph for each answer.  Please number the questions to which you are responding. Try to put as much information and analysis as you can into each paragraph. Remember, these are paragraphs, not essays!

1. To what extent is the presidency of Thomas Jefferson a study in irony? Or is it a study in hypocrisy? Did Jefferson’s actions as President verify that Alexander Hamilton’s version of America was more realistic? Why/why not?
2. What lasting legacy did John Marshall establish as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?  What precedents were set in the cases of Marbury vs. Madison, Gibbons vs. Ogden, McCulloch vs. Maryland and the Dartmouth College Case?
3. What was Jefferson’s policy for dealing with the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Pirates?
4. What factors drove Henry Clay to propose the Missouri Compromise? What variables did he have to consider about change in the United States?
5. Did politicians of the 1820 period demonstrate statesmanship or cowardice in their various stances on slavery?
6. To what extent was the “Corrupt Bargain” as villainous as the supporters of Andrew Jackson claimed? Why/why not?
7. How did the election of Jackson effect sections of the North, West, and South?
8. The era of Andrew Jackson is seen as a major political shift in the history of the United States. What are legitimate arguments for and against truly permitting the common man into political office?
9. Jacksonians envisioned themselves as the new guardians of the common man. How effective were they with Blacks, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and religious groups?
10. Why did John Marshall take the position he did in Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia in 1834? Why did Jackson take on the court in such a bellicose manner? 
11. The bill to construct the Maysville Road would have clearly benefited Jackson’ ssectinon of the country. Why did he cast a veto?
12. Was Martin Van Buren and his presidency ruined because of his loyalty to Andrew Jackson? What factors caused the Panic of 1837?
13. After Andrew Jackson, what qualities did Americans look for in the selection of their Presidents? 
14. To what extent do reform movements, prisons, temperance, abolition, communal living and religious movements reflect the changing values of the times?