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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Patrician as Opportunist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Southwesterners want Andrew Jackson to do?
(a) Create a private banking system.
(b) Run for president of the United States.
(c) Oppose the bank and force states to provide debt relief.
(d) Take Texas for the United States.

2. How long did Abraham Lincoln initially plan for the war to last?
(a) One year.
(b) Between twelve and eighteen months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.

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

4. How did Franklin Roosevelt's economic policy change in 1938?
(a) Subsidies were offered to the unemployed.
(b) He began to expand spending and attack monopolies.
(c) The government siezed key industries for security.
(d) He focused more on preserving viable industries.

5. What concern did William Jennings Bryan voice over Woodrow Wilson's support of Great Britain?
(a) He feared the economy would suffer greatly.
(b) He felt that neutrality would be wiser for the sake of the future.
(c) He feared such support would draw an attack on the mainland.
(d) He feared such support would draw the U.S. into the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hofstadter, which politician was the only person to have his status elevated as a result of World War I?

2. What problem did deflation cause during the Gilded Age?

3. To which politician does Hofstadter compare Woodrow Wilson?

4. What did the supporters of the free silver movement wish for the government to do?

5. What practice among Northern factories did John C. Calhoun condemn?

(see the answer key)

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