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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservative as Progressive.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which economic system did Wendell Phillips oppose?
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Mercantile.
(d) Capitalist.

2. How does Hofstadter describe abolitionism?
(a) As a political sinkhole.
(b) As the beginning of humanism.
(c) As a moral fervor.
(d) As an economic plan.

3. Why did Theodore Roosevelt enter politics?
(a) To gain money and fame.
(b) To improve his family's social status.
(c) To restore virtue to political office.
(d) To expand the territory of the United States.

4. How did Theodore Roosevelt feel about America's entry into World War I?
(a) He was resigned to the inevitability of war.
(b) He was ambivelent about foreign affairs.
(c) He strongly supported American entry into the war.
(d) He strongly opposed American intervention in the war.

5. What was Wendell Phillips's main goal?
(a) To protect slaves who had run away from their owners.
(b) To end slavery through any means possible.
(c) To convince people there was a practical end to slavery.
(d) To end slavery through legal channels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected president of the United States in 1912?

2. Why did Andrew Jackson want to close down the bank or force inflation?

3. Why did most members of the abolitionist movement have difficulty convincing people to support the end of slavery?

4. Who won the presidential election in 1824?

5. On the American frontier, how was social hierarchy gained?

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