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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. What economic changes occurred during the Gilded Age?
(a) There was great economic growth.
(b) There was a steady economic decline.
(c) Socialist economic principles were adopted.
(d) There was a sudden economic crash in 1865.

2. Where did Woodrow Wilson train to be a politician?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) In the courtroom.
(d) Yale University.

3. Which movement did not approve of Grover Cleveland's policies?
(a) The socialist movement.
(b) The populist movement.
(c) The abolitionist movement.
(d) The democratic movement.

4. Who won the presidential election in 1916?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) William Howard Taft.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Warren G. Harding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt from the waist down?

2. How does Hofstadter view Franklin Roosevelt?

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

4. Who succeeded Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the League of Nations?

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

3. Why was Theodore Roosevelt considered a Conservative Progressive?

4. What was the "Gilded Age"?

5. Which political party dominated the United States after the Civil War and why?

6. What was The New Deal?

7. Describe Theodore Roosevelt.

8. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt oppose big business?

9. How did Woodrow Wilson rise to power?

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

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