Answer TWO (2) of the following four (4) questions and follow the instructions below: 

1. Discuss the origins and evolution of the Second American Party System from the 1820s to the election of 1840. In particular, review two major issues that created controversy among American political leaders and their followers. 

2. Discuss the changes that the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency brought to American government and politics. 

3. Major factors in the evolution of American society in the Jacksonian Era include the following characteristics: 

► territorial expansion and the westward movement of settlement, 

► rapid industrialization and an expanding commercial market, 

► foreign relations challenges such as the Texas Revolution and potential conflict with Mexico, and 

► efforts as the reform of important aspects of American society. 

Choose one (1) of these characteristics, and explain how this characteristic played out in the history of the United States in the period between 1815 and 1846. 

4. One question that began to bedevil American politics in the decades following the War of 1812 was the role of slavery in American society. Discuss the ways American political leaders and their constituents sought to resolve the problems that the controversy over slavery seemed to generate.

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