AP U.S. History
APUSH 4.3–4.8: Mixed Practice 2
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20 mixed MCQs for Topics 4.3-4.8 on causation, comparison and continuity: Whigs vs. Democrats, tariffs and regional interests, the cult of domesticity, Irish vs. German immigrants, the spoils system, Charles River Bridge, the Panics of 1819 and 1837. Every choice explained.
20 questions across 5 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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"This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." | Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Holmes, 1820 — The excerpt most directly reflects concern about
- A. South Carolina's attempt to nullify the federal tariff
- B. the sectional conflict over slavery's expansion into Missouri ✓
- C. the danger of war with Britain after attacks on American ships
- D. the Supreme Court's expansion of federal power in McCulloch v. Maryland
Correct answer: B. Jefferson saw that a geographic line dividing free and slave states could split the nation, which proved true.
Which best explains why many eastern states dropped property requirements for voting between 1800 and 1840?
- A. A constitutional amendment required every state to let all adult white men vote
- B. The Federalist Party campaigned to expand voting to win working-class votes
- C. The Supreme Court ruled property requirements unconstitutional
- D. New western states let most white men vote, pressuring older states to follow ✓
Correct answer: D. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and others had few property limits, and eastern states rewrote constitutions so they would not lose people westward.
Which policy would a member of the Whig Party in the 1830s most likely support?
- A. Strong presidential use of the veto to block bills passed by Congress
- B. Removal of federal deposits from the national bank into state banks
- C. Lower tariffs and a strict reading of the Constitution
- D. A national bank, a protective tariff and federal roads and canals ✓
Correct answer: D. The Whigs adopted Clay's American System and favored an active federal government and moral reform.
Southern planters opposed the 'Tariff of Abominations' (1828) mainly because
- A. it put a heavy federal tax on every bale of cotton they grew
- B. it gave western farmers free land in competition with Southern planters
- C. it banned the import of enslaved people into the South
- D. they sold cotton abroad but had to pay more for imported goods ✓
Correct answer: D. Protective tariffs helped Northern factories but squeezed the export-based Southern economy and risked British retaliation against cotton.
Which group most strongly supported federally funded internal improvements in the 1810s-1830s?
- A. President Jackson, who used the Maysville Road to reward supporters
- B. New England shipping merchants who feared competition from new routes
- C. Western farmers who needed roads and canals to get crops to market ✓
- D. Southern planters worried about federal power over slavery
Correct answer: C. Westerners wanted cheaper transportation, which is why Clay of Kentucky built the American System around it.