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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 Emancipation Proclamation not prohibit?
(a) Slavery in the South.
(b) New slaves from being brought into America.
(c) Owners from reclaiming their slaves from the North.
(d) Slavery outside the South.

2. What form of rivalry did the Founders wish to allow in their new country?
(a) Competition.
(b) Interstate rivalries.
(c) Land acquisition.
(d) Class change.

3. What political changes occurred during the Gilded Age?
(a) The Supreme Court was formed.
(b) Socialist policies allowed more governmental control.
(c) Politics became corrupt.
(d) Congress gained the power of veto.

4. Why was John C. Calhoun forced to resign from Andrew Jackson's cabinet?
(a) He voiced his opinion of slavery in public.
(b) He embezzled money from the U.S. Treasury.
(c) He opposed Jackson's "Tariff of Abominations."
(d) He slandered Jackson in a speech to the press.

5. How does Hofstadter describe Wendell Phillips's political affiliation?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Republican.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Franklin Roosevelt hold in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet?

2. What did Wendell Phillips want to prevent people from becoming?

3. What was Wendell Phillips's main goal?

4. Which economic system did Wendell Phillips oppose?

5. According to the Founders, what could use private vices to produce public benefits?

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