AP U.S. History
APUSH 4.9–4.12: Mixed Practice 2 (Skills)
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20 questions across Topics 4.9–4.12 built around the AP historical thinking skills: causation, comparison, continuity and change, and contextualization, with links back to the Market Revolution and Jacksonian democracy.
20 questions across 4 sections. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.
Sample questions
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Which was the most important cause of the reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s?
- A. British pressure on Congress to reform American society after the War of 1812
- B. The end of the Market Revolution
- C. The Supreme Court ruling in Gibbons v. Ogden
- D. The Second Great Awakening's belief that society could be perfected ✓
Correct answer: D. Revival converts carried their faith into temperance, abolition, schools and asylums.
The Market Revolution most directly contributed to the temperance movement by
- A. ending wage labor in cities
- B. banning alcohol through federal law in every state
- C. lowering the price of whiskey to zero
- D. making employers value sober, disciplined workers ✓
Correct answer: D. Factory work needed punctual, steady labor, and middle-class families saw drinking as a threat to order and success.
The cotton gin's long-term effect on African Americans was to
- A. move most enslaved people north to work in New England factories
- B. make slavery unnecessary on Southern farms
- C. strengthen and spread slavery across the Deep South ✓
- D. end the domestic slave trade
Correct answer: C. By making short-staple cotton profitable, the gin drove demand for land and enslaved labor.
Exclusion from the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention led most directly to
- A. the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 ✓
- B. the Nullification Crisis
- C. the founding of the Mormon church in 1830
- D. the Amistad revolt
Correct answer: A. Stanton and Mott met in London when both were shut out, and they later organized the first women's rights convention.
Southern responses to abolitionism in the 1830s most directly increased
- A. national unity on slavery
- B. Southern support for the women's rights movement
- C. sectional tension between North and South ✓
- D. Northern support for the gag rule
Correct answer: C. Mail censorship, the gag rule and positive-good arguments led many Northerners to see a "slave power" threatening free speech.