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Question 1

As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
 
  A. a champion of business cooperation.
 
  B. a paragon of conservative America.
 
  C. an internationalist in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson.
 
  D. an enemy of wealth and privilege.
 
  E. a believer in passive government.

Question 2

All the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT that he
 
  A. was a progressive Democratic governor.
 
  B. was unable to unite his divided party.
 
  C. won the 1928 Democratic nomination.
 
  D. was an Irish Catholic.
 
  E. lost the 1924 nomination to William McAdoo.

Question 3

In the election of 1924, among the political parties,
 
  A. the Republican Party was seriously divided.
 
  B. None of these answers is correct.
 
  C. the Progressive Party was seriously divided.
 
  D. the Democratic Party was seriously divided.
 
  E. both the Democratic Party and the Progressive Party were seriously divided.

Question 4

As president, Warren Harding
 
  A. was unable to abandon the party hacks who had brought him to success.
 
  B. had no sense of his own intellectual limits.
 
  C. sought a revival of progressive reform.
 
  D. proposed the United States join the League of Nations.
 
  E. saw his administration end with his defeat in a bid for reelection in 1924.

Question 5

Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part because
 
  A. he both failed to carry the South and maintained close connections to the oil industry.
 
  B. of his close connections to the oil industry.
 
  C. he failed to carry the South.
 
  D. All these answers are correct.
 
  E. of a financial scandal within his campaign.



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Natalie4ever

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Answer 1

A

Answer 2

E

Answer 3

D

Answer 4

A

Answer 5

C




Alygatorr01285

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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


kjohnson

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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