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Fiveable has 25,756 AP World History: Modern multiple-choice practice questions across 9 units, plus 2,269 stimulus-based question sets built around a source. Practice one unit or topic at a time.

  • Unit 1 – The Global Tapestry (1200-1450): 2,697 multiple-choice questions, 60 stimulus sets
  • Unit 2 – Networks of Exchange (1200-1450): 2,632 multiple-choice questions, 129 stimulus sets
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  • Unit 8 – Cold War & Decolonization (1900-Present): 2,960 multiple-choice questions, 206 stimulus sets
  • Unit 9 – Globalization: 1900 to Today: 3,017 multiple-choice questions, 123 stimulus sets

Sample AP World History: Modern practice question

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Andrew Symmer, British representative for the Turks Islands in the Caribbean, letter to the British government, 1764.

The high taxes charged by Spain, upon every article of commerce, whether exported or imported into their American dominions, and their extensive coastal areas, are major advantages to British smugglers, who carry on a contraband commerce. I recommend that we allow the Spanish colonists into our ports without charging them taxes, so we can bring this trade openly into our territory now that the war is over.

The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about British imperial strategy in the Caribbean following the end of war in 1764?

British commercial dominance could be more effectively established through economic policy that exploited Spanish colonial dissatisfaction with metropolitan trade restrictions than through continued military conflict or territorial conquest.

Correct answer

Spanish colonial administrative inefficiency created opportunities for British territorial expansion in the Caribbean through diplomatic negotiations that would transfer sovereignty over weakly governed Spanish possessions to British control.

British smuggling networks represented criminal enterprises that undermined legitimate commerce and required suppression through stricter enforcement of trade regulations and increased naval patrols.

Caribbean economic development required coordinated Anglo-Spanish cooperation to reform outdated mercantilist policies that restricted colonial trade and prevented optimal resource allocation across imperial boundaries.

Explanation

The correct answer identifies Symmer's underlying argument that economic policy mechanisms are superior to military ones for post-war imperial expansion, requiring synthesis of his critique of Spanish policy (lines 1-2), his British policy recommendation (lines 3-4), and his post-war timing (line 5) to infer his claim about optimal imperial strategy. Distractor A is eliminated by emphasis on trade capture rather than territorial transfer; distractor B is contradicted by his positive framing of smuggling; distractor C is eliminated by competitive rather than cooperative framing throughout.

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