AP United States History Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

American System — the 1804–06 Corps of Discovery that explored the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean Missouri Compromise (1820) — Henry Clay's program of a national bank, protective tariffs, and federally funded internal improvements to unify the economy Era of Good Feelings — the period of one-party (Democratic-Republican) dominance and nationalism after the War of 1812 Lewis and Clark expedition — the agreement admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, banning slavery north of 36°30′ in the Louisiana Territory

Question 2

A golden spike joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, cutting cross-country travel from months to days. This situation best illustrates which of the following?

political machines New immigrants Transcontinental Railroad (1869) Cross of Gold speech (1896)

Question 3

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

Prohibition — President Hoover's reliance on voluntarism and limited intervention, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, widely judged inadequate Hoover's response to the Depression — investigative journalists who exposed corruption and social abuses, such as Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell muckrakers — the era (1920–33) when alcohol was banned nationwide, fostering bootlegging, speakeasies, and organized crime Eighteenth Amendment — the 1919 amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol, launching Prohibition

Question 4

In the course framework, "stagflation" belongs primarily to which unit?

Period 6 (1865–1898) Period 4 (1800–1848) Period 3 (1754–1800) Period 8 (1945–1980)

Question 5

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

Reagan Revolution — the Obama-era law expanding health insurance coverage through exchanges, Medicaid expansion, and an individual mandate (later neutralized) end of the Cold War (1989–91) — the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union Affordable Care Act (2010) — the theory that cutting taxes and regulation stimulates investment and growth, with benefits trickling down supply-side economics (Reaganomics) — the conservative turn beginning in 1980: tax cuts, deregulation, increased defense spending, and a smaller domestic government

Question 6

Which of the following pairings of a concept with its description is correct?

sharecropping — the belief that the United States was destined — and divinely ordained — to expand across the North American continent Gettysburg (1863) — the pivotal three-day battle in Pennsylvania that ended Lee's invasion of the North; Lincoln later dedicated its cemetery with the Gettysburg Address Manifest Destiny — the treaty ending the Mexican-American War, ceding California and the Southwest to the United States for $15 million Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) — the system in which landless farmers worked land in exchange for a share of the crop, often falling into perpetual debt

Question 7

Which concept is described by the following? "The 1620 agreement among the Pilgrims to create a government based on the consent of the governed."

tobacco cultivation in Virginia Plymouth Colony Enlightenment ideas in the colonies Mayflower Compact

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a key concept of Period 1 (1491–1607)?

encomienda system Pueblo peoples Hartford Convention (1814) Columbian Exchange

Question 9

The concept "Whiskey Rebellion (1794)" is most closely associated with which part of the course?

Period 3 (1754–1800) Period 7 (1890–1945) Period 9 (1980–Present) Period 8 (1945–1980)

Question 10

In this course, the term "Market Revolution" refers to which of the following?

The 19th-century transformation linking regions through canals, steamboats, railroads, and telegraphs, commercializing agriculture and expanding factories The forced removal of the Cherokee and other southeastern tribes to Oklahoma, during which thousands died The law authorizing the forced relocation of Native American tribes east of the Mississippi to lands in the West Jefferson's law halting all American exports, intended to pressure Britain and France but devastating to the U.S. economy

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