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AP U.S. History

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229 questions across 28 sections. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.

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Which statement about Washington's cabinet is most accurate?
  1. A. It was required by Article II, which lists the four original departments.
  2. B. It was modeled on the Articles of Confederation's committee of states.
  3. C. It was a custom Washington created by meeting regularly with the heads of the executive departments; the Constitution does not mention a cabinet. ✓
  4. D. Its members were chosen by Congress and could be removed only by impeachment.

Correct answer: C. Correct — the Constitution lets the president appoint department heads with Senate confirmation, but the cabinet as an advisory body is a Washington precedent.

Which of the following correctly matches one of Washington's original department heads with his post?
  1. A. Henry Knox — secretary of war ✓
  2. B. Edmund Randolph — secretary of the treasury
  3. C. Thomas Jefferson — attorney general
  4. D. John Jay — secretary of state

Correct answer: A. Correct — Knox, Washington's wartime artillery chief, headed the War Department.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 is best understood as evidence that
  1. A. the Constitution had fixed the Supreme Court at nine justices, which Congress then confirmed.
  2. B. the Supreme Court was denied any authority over decisions of state courts.
  3. C. Anti-Federalists succeeded in abolishing lower federal courts.
  4. D. the Constitution left much of the federal court system for Congress to design by statute. ✓

Correct answer: D. Correct — the Constitution names only the Supreme Court. Congress set its size (six justices) and created the district and circuit courts.

A historian argues that 'the first decade under the Constitution mattered more for the precedents it set than for the policies it produced.' Which development best supports this argument?
  1. A. Washington's voluntary retirement after two terms, which later presidents followed until 1940 ✓
  2. B. The specific tariff rates passed in 1789
  3. C. The location of the temporary capital in New York City
  4. D. The Proclamation of Neutrality's specific terms toward France and Britain

Correct answer: A. Correct — the two-term tradition had no legal basis. It survived as precedent for nearly 150 years, which is exactly the historian's point.

Why did Hamilton's plan to pay the national debt at face value provoke charges that it favored the wealthy?
  1. A. Face-value payment required a tax on land owned only by small farmers.
  2. B. Face-value payment went only to British creditors.
  3. C. Many original holders of wartime certificates had sold them cheaply to speculators, who would now collect the full value. ✓
  4. D. Face-value payment cancelled the debts owed to state governments.

Correct answer: C. Correct — soldiers and farmers had sold depreciated certificates for cash, so face-value payment rewarded the buyers, often wealthy northern speculators.