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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 4 (1800–1848) — Drill 8 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 4: 1800–1848. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 4 drill uses a modern historian's analysis of the Market Revolution of the early nineteenth century. Questions assess the historian's argument, the social tensions generated by economic transformation, and how the Market Revolution reshaped American life beyond just the economy.
Passage
The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay on the Market Revolution of the early nineteenth century.
The Market Revolution of the early nineteenth century did not merely transform the American economy — it remade American society from the ground up. As subsistence farming gave way to commercial agriculture, and as household production gave way to factory manufacture, ordinary Americans were integrated into regional and national markets for the first time. This integration brought new prosperity to many, but it also created new forms of dependency and anxiety. Workers who once controlled their own labor now sold it by the hour. Farmers who once fed their families now grew cash crops for distant markets they could not control. Women who once produced goods within the home were increasingly confined to a domestic sphere defined by consumption rather than production. The Market Revolution, in short, generated not only new wealth but also new social tensions that would shape American politics for decades.
Questions in This Drill
- The historian's argument that the Market Revolution 'remade American society from the ground up' primarily challenges which of the following assumptions?
- According to the historian, which of the following best explains the social tensions generated by the Market Revolution?
- The historian's description of women being 'confined to a domestic sphere defined by consumption rather than production' most directly reflects which of the following developments in the early nineteenth century?
- The 'new social tensions' described by the historian most directly shaped which of the following political developments of the 1830s and 1840s?
- Which of the following pieces of historical evidence would most directly support the historian's argument about the social consequences of the Market Revolution?