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AP U.S. History

APUSH 4.9–4.12: Mixed Practice 1 (Primary Sources)

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20 AP-style source questions across Topics 4.9–4.12, in groups of 2–3 per source: Calhoun's positive good speech, Horace Mann, Angelina Grimké, Tocqueville, Liberty Party vote data, Thoreau and the 1831 Virginia anti-literacy law.

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20 questions. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.

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Calhoun's argument in the excerpt is best understood as a response to
  1. A. Northern support for the American System
  2. B. British demands that the U.S. expand slavery
  3. C. the rise of immediate abolitionism in the North during the 1830s ✓
  4. D. the decline of the Second Great Awakening in Southern churches

Correct answer: C. As Garrison's movement flooded Congress with petitions, Southern leaders shifted from calling slavery a "necessary evil" to defending it as a positive good.

Calhoun's view in the excerpt differs most from the earlier view of many Southern leaders in the 1780s and 1790s, who
  1. A. wanted to restart the African slave trade at once
  2. B. demanded the immediate abolition of slavery
  3. C. often called slavery a necessary evil that might fade over time ✓
  4. D. argued that slavery was required by the Constitution in every state

Correct answer: C. Jefferson and others had treated slavery as a regrettable evil; Calhoun recast it as a good, a sign of hardening Southern defenses.

Which development in the 1830s most directly reflects the same Southern position as the excerpt?
  1. A. The founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833
  2. B. The House gag rule blocking discussion of antislavery petitions ✓
  3. C. The Seneca Falls Convention's call for equal rights for women
  4. D. The founding of Brook Farm

Correct answer: B. The gag rule (1836-1844) was a Southern effort to shut down the abolitionist attack Calhoun was answering.

Mann's argument in the excerpt most directly reflects a concern about
  1. A. growing gaps between rich and poor in a changing economy ✓
  2. B. the danger of a standing army
  3. C. British control of American trade through the Navigation Acts
  4. D. the spread of slavery into Texas

Correct answer: A. Mann saw public schools as a way to ease class tension in a society reshaped by factories, wage labor and cities.

Supporters of common schools like Mann also hoped public education would
  1. A. prepare most children for careers as ministers and missionaries
  2. B. replace the need for parents to raise and teach their own children at home
  3. C. train enslaved people for skilled factory work
  4. D. teach immigrant children shared values and make them good citizens ✓

Correct answer: D. Reformers saw schools as a way to Americanize Irish and German children and train voters in a democracy.