AP U.S. History
APUSH 4.7: Expanding Democracy
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Practice for Topic 4.7: universal white male suffrage and its limits, popular choice of electors, rising turnout, the Anti-Masons and nominating conventions, Democrats vs. Whigs, the 1840 log cabin campaign, and the spoils system. 15 questions with an explanation for every choice.
15 questions across 3 sections. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.
Sample questions
Open a question to see the answer choices and the correct answer.
What was the biggest change in who could vote between about 1800 and 1840?
- A. Most states dropped property and taxpaying requirements, so nearly all white men could vote ✓
- B. Women won the right to vote in most Northern states
- C. States began requiring voters to own more land
- D. A constitutional amendment let all men over 21 vote
Correct answer: A. This is 'universal white male suffrage.' It did not include women, enslaved people, most free Black men or Native Americans.
New York's 1821 constitution showed the limits of democratic reform because it
- A. ended property rules for white men but raised them for Black men ✓
- B. let only state legislators pick the governor
- C. ended voting for all men who did not own land
- D. gave women the vote in state elections but took it away from recent immigrants
Correct answer: A. Black men had to own $250 in property to vote, a bar that shut out nearly all of them while white men voted freely.
By 1832, presidential electors in every state except South Carolina were
- A. appointed by the Supreme Court
- B. chosen by popular vote ✓
- C. abolished in favor of a direct national vote
- D. chosen only by members of Congress
Correct answer: B. This change gave ordinary voters a direct say and made national campaigns for the public's support worthwhile.
Approximate voter turnout in presidential elections (share of eligible voters) | 1824: about 27% 1828: about 57% 1832: about 55% 1836: about 58% 1840: about 80% — The trend shown in the data is best explained by
- A. the end of political parties after 1824
- B. women and free Black men gaining the vote
- C. a new federal law that required all adult men to vote or pay a fine
- D. broader white male suffrage and parties competing hard for votes ✓
Correct answer: D. As property limits fell, Democrats and Whigs built organizations, rallies and newspapers to get voters to the polls.
Approximate voter turnout in presidential elections (share of eligible voters) | 1824: about 27% 1828: about 57% 1832: about 55% 1836: about 58% 1840: about 80% — The jump in turnout shown for 1840 is most closely linked to
- A. the Whigs' 'log cabin and hard cider' campaign for William Henry Harrison ✓
- B. the first election in which women could vote
- C. the end of slavery in the border states
- D. Andrew Jackson running for a third term
Correct answer: A. Whigs copied Democratic mass-campaign methods with parades, songs and slogans, painting Harrison as a common man and Van Buren as an aristocrat.