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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which controversial group is William Jennings Bryan associated?
(a) The Masons.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The Federalists.
(d) The Nazi Party.

2. How does Hofstadter describe Grover Cleveland's economic policies?
(a) Corporate capitalism.
(b) Laissez-faire capitalism.
(c) Mercantile.
(d) Socialist.

3. How does Hofstadter describe Herbert Hoover's economic policies?
(a) Laissez-faire capitalism.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Corporate capitalism.
(d) Mercantile.

4. Which movement did William Jennings Bryan lead?
(a) The populist movement.
(b) The socialist movement.
(c) The abolitionist movement.
(d) The democratic movement.

5. What physical changes occurred during the Gilded Age?
(a) The United States fought for and won Texas.
(b) Americans colonized the entire continent.
(c) The South was revived by industry.
(d) Americans explored from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hofstadter view Franklin Roosevelt?

2. Where did Woodrow Wilson train to be a politician?

3. According to Hofstadter, which politician represented the interests of those who survived Reconstruction in the South?

4. Where did Herbert Hoover attend school?

5. Which organization was credited for preserving European economies after World War I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Woodrow Wilson rise to power?

2. How did Herbert Hoover rise to power?

3. How did Theodore Roosevelt affect American politics after his term in office?

4. Why did William Jennings Bryan resign as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War?

5. What was Woodrow Wilson's philosophy concerning World War I?

6. How did the Second World War affect Roosevelt's career?

7. Why did Theodore Roosevelt enter politics?

8. Describe Franklin D. Roosevelt.

9. Describe William Jennings Bryan.

10. What was the free silver issue?

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