Question
Read the quotation and answer the question.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities[.]
— former President Theodore Roosevelt, 1915
In this quotation, Roosevelt warns against what dangerous trend?
A.
increased nativism among the American people
B.
state legislatures calling for secession
C.
declining manufacturing and the loss of jobs
D.
significant migration from rural areas to cities
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities[.]
— former President Theodore Roosevelt, 1915
In this quotation, Roosevelt warns against what dangerous trend?
A.
increased nativism among the American people
B.
state legislatures calling for secession
C.
declining manufacturing and the loss of jobs
D.
significant migration from rural areas to cities
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In this quotation, Roosevelt warns against the dangerous trend of **A. increased nativism among the American people**. He criticizes the idea of hyphenated Americanism, which implies divisions based on ethnicity or nationality, suggesting that such divisions could lead to fragmentation and undermine national unity.