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AP U.S. History — Period 3 (1754–1800) — Drill 27

Drill 27 · Multiple Choice · Period 3: 1754–1800

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AP U.S. History — Period 3 (1754–1800) — Drill 27 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 3: 1754–1800. 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 3 drill uses a modern historian's analysis arguing that the 1790s were the most dangerous decade in American constitutional history. Questions address the historian's argument, the nature of Federalist-Jeffersonian conflict, and what made this partisan struggle unusually dangerous.

Passage

The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay arguing that the 1790s were the most dangerous decade in American constitutional history. The 1790s were the most dangerous decade in American constitutional history — more dangerous, in some ways, than the secession crisis of 1860–1861, because in the 1790s the constitutional order itself had not yet been tested, normalized, or accepted as legitimate by all its participants. The disputes between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were not merely policy disagreements; they were existential conflicts about the nature of the Republic. Each side genuinely believed that the other's policies, if allowed to stand, would destroy self-government in America. The Federalists thought Jeffersonian democracy would degenerate into mob rule and foreign entanglement. The Jeffersonians thought Hamiltonian finance and the military buildup of the Adams years were the first steps toward monarchy. Both sides were wrong in their specific fears, but the intensity of those fears reveals a political culture that had not yet developed the shared assumptions about legitimate opposition that modern democracy requires.

Questions in This Drill

  1. The historian's argument that the 1790s were 'more dangerous' than the 1860–1861 secession crisis primarily rests on which of the following distinctions?
  2. The historian's observation that both Federalists and Jeffersonians 'genuinely believed that the other's policies would destroy self-government' most directly illustrates which of the following features of early American political culture?
  3. The 'military buildup of the Adams years' that the historian describes as alarming to Jeffersonians most directly refers to which of the following developments?
  4. The 'shared assumptions about legitimate opposition that modern democracy requires' that the historian argues the 1790s lacked were most clearly developed in American political culture through which of the following later developments?
  5. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress, most directly reflected the dynamic the historian describes because they