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Question of the Day: AP US History
I have heard it asserted by some that, as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that, because a child had thrived upon milk, it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true. For I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her…
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Which of the following historical figures would have been least likely to agree with the ideas expressed by Thomas Paine in the passage above?
Thomas Hutchinson
John Paul Jones
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Nathanael Greene
The AP US History course is designed to offer college-level education and credit to high school students like you. When you take this class, you show colleges that you are serious about getting the best education possible. You also receive college credit, so you can take higher level college classes sooner, and maybe even graduate earlier or advance into graduate school sooner. The Varsity Tutors’ Question of the Day can help you prepare for the challenging AP US History exam you will need to take.
As a hard-working and driven student, you know that cramming right before the exam doesn’t work. Instead, you need to practice regularly to really understand the information you learn. The Question of the Day Learning Tool offers daily test review, which ensures that you don’t feel rushed or unprepared when AP US History exam time rolls around. The Question of the Day can be extremely helpful to you as you prepare for the exam environment. The AP US History Question of the Day offers a brand new question every day, which is inspired by previous exam questions involving major events and personalities throughout US History. You can become used to seeing a variety of questions, and answering them quickly and accurately every time.
One of the major benefits to the Question of the Day is the timer feature. This clock does not require that you answer the question in a specific amount of time, but it does track how long you take to answer the question. During the first part of the AP US History exam, you will have 55 minutes to answer 55 questions – and to finish this multiple-choice section, you will need to answer each question in no more than 60 seconds. By using the Question of the Day’s timer, you can track how long you take to answer questions and work on improving your speed. You can also improve your accuracy, because you can see when you take a long time to answer questions on certain topics. This helps guide your AP US History test review sessions, so you become very familiar with all the important points and people from the last 200 years.
The Question of the Day also offers graphics that track how accurate your answers are over time. You can see how quickly you improve your own score with our free AP US History practice, and you can also compare your scores to other students taking AP US History. Best of all, the Question of the Day offers a detailed explanation of the correct answer at the bottom of the page. Regardless of whether or not you answered the question correctly, you can get more information about the answer to help you understand the subject.
The Question of the Day is just one of the many great AP US History Learning Tools offered online to help students like yourself prepare for the AP Exam at the end of the semester. Make use of practice tests, Learn by Concept, and flashcards to round out your study preparation!
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