Question 1
This cartoon reflecting Roosevelt's goal of government spending to fund the New Deal was created by __________.
A) liberals who favored using government funding to assist those affected by the Great
Depression
B) Progressives who supported direct government financing of economic recovery programs
C) FDR's Brain Trust who wanted to use government regulation to solve economic issues
D) conservatives who felt that the president created expensive programs that did not work
Question 2
How did Granger Laws address the railroad corruption depicted in this 1873 cartoon?
A) They allowed railroads the power to offer preferred customers special rates.
B) They ruled that state legislatures could regulate interstate railroad commerce.
C) They set maximum rates for transporting or storing grain by railroads.
D) They forced railroads to turn over lands adjacent to tracks to homesteaders.
Question 3
What factor in the 1790s best supports Madison's idea that all power has been traced to public opinion?
A) the expansion of the press
B) the creation of a modern two-party political system
C) the effects of the French Revolution
D) the results of effective grassroots organizing by new types of politicians
Question 4
Why did the Washington Star think it was newsworthy to print the 1935 headline Mrs. Roosevelt Spends the Night at the White House?
A) Eleanor Roosevelt traveled extensively as her husband's eyes and ears to report about
conditions during the Great Depression
B) Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had a strained marriage and frequently lived apart from each
other.
C) Eleanor Roosevelt preferred living at her husband's estate in Hyde Park, New York.
D) Eleanor Roosevelt believed the role of first lady should be unassuming and therefore felt it
was unnecessary to live in the White House full time.
A herd of Roosevelt Elk in Redwood National and State Parks, California
Mass Loss by a Supermassive Star
This engraving by William Russell Birch shows Congress Hall (left), which was occupied by Congress f
Shortly after his death, George Washington had already become myth—part Moses, part angel—in this wo
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Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park, Washington.