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AP U.S. History — Period 4 (1800–1848) — Drill 7

Drill 7 · Multiple Choice · Period 4: 1800–1848

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AP U.S. History — Period 4 (1800–1848) — Drill 7 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 is based on an adapted excerpt from Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message to Congress (1830), defending Indian removal. Questions analyze Jackson's rhetoric, his framing of Native peoples, the assumptions embedded in his language, and the broader context of Indian Removal policy.

Passage

The following is adapted from President Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message to Congress, delivered in December 1830. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy and free people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? Humanity has often wept over the fate of the aborigines of this country, and Philanthropy has been long busily employed in devising means to avert it, but its progress has never for a moment been arrested, and one by one have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth. Doubtless it will be painful to leave the graves of their fathers, but what should be done? Our children must inherit our toils — our country must be peopled.

Questions in This Drill

  1. Jackson's rhetorical question — 'What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages' — primarily serves to
  2. Jackson's observation that 'one by one have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth' most directly reveals
  3. The historical context most directly relevant to understanding Jackson's 1830 message was
  4. Jackson's argument that 'our country must be peopled' most directly reflects which of the following ideological principles of the Jacksonian era?
  5. Which of the following most directly resulted from the Indian removal policy that Jackson defended in this passage?