Question 1: Did the Supreme Court under John Marshall give too much power to the federal government (at the expense of the states)? Why or why not?
Question 2: Looking at how the United States developed afterward, was the American Revolution truly a revolution at all? If so, what were its most radical, or revolutionary, aspects and results?
Question 3: Many historians believe that perhaps the most important consequence of the Second Great Awakening was the fact that it made Protestant Christianity and republicanism compatible in a way they hadn't really been before. Why do they make this argument, and do you agree or disagree?