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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 7 (1890–1945) — Drill 23 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 7: 1890–1945. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 7 drill is based on excerpts from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933). Questions analyze Roosevelt's biblical "money changers" metaphor, his criticism of banking leadership's response to the credit crisis, his vision for government's role in the economy, and the broader context of the bank panics and the New Deal.
Passage
The following is excerpted from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, delivered on March 4, 1933.
[...] Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Questions in This Drill
- Roosevelt's use of the phrase 'money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple' most directly serves to
- Roosevelt's criticism that the banking establishment had 'proposed only the lending of more money' most directly reflects his rejection of which of the following approaches to addressing the Depression?
- The economic context most directly relevant to understanding Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address was
- Roosevelt's argument that 'happiness lies in the joy of achievement' and 'moral stimulation of work' rather than 'monetary profit' most directly drew upon which of the following intellectual traditions?
- The New Deal programs that followed Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address most directly challenged which of the following precedents in American political economy?