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

2. What concern did Abraham Lincoln have about secession?
(a) The loss to the economy.
(b) The division of families.
(c) Its legality.
(d) Its morality.

3. How does Hofstadter describe Abraham Lincoln's concern over the issue of slavery in America?
(a) Strong.
(b) Fierce.
(c) Mild.
(d) Weak.

4. How did Abraham Lincoln force the Confederacy into a battle?
(a) By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) By blockading Charleston.
(c) By destroying key railroads.
(d) By blockading Fort Sumter.

5. What was Franklin Roosevelt's view on social reforms?
(a) He felt the government could cure social ills.
(b) They caused more problems than they solved.
(c) They were meaningless.
(d) He felt that Americans should take care of each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lifestyle did Thomas Jefferson abhor?

2. What did the Southwesterners want Andrew Jackson to do?

3. What did the recolonization society want Abraham Lincoln to do?

4. What studies did Franklin Roosevelt pursue?

5. Why did Abraham Lincoln prefer to read aloud?

(see the answer key)

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