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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the two houses of congress treat the Great Depression?

2. What does LBJ do to accommodate his many guests during his recovery on the ranch?

3. How does LBJ's personality fit into the Senate?

4. What does Richard Bevard Russell Jr. become known as after his father's death?

5. Whose death allows moderate Republicans to call for a moratorium on rhetoric?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does LBJ feel Democrats need credit for the rescue of an idolized President?

2. How does the Seventeenth Amendment effect Senators?

3. When LBJ sends investigators in to the Air Force base, what do they find compared to what LBJ reports to the public?

4. What is LBJ relationship with his other family members like?

5. What is the effect of an aging Senate?

6. How does LBJ use money from the Oilman to his advantage?

7. What is the Senate responsible for?

8. Why is LBJ such a contrast to the typical Senator?

9. How is the Senate Supreme described in chapter 15?

10. How is LBJ able to expand nine and reduce four committees to his favor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What changes come about in the marches and protests of African Americans after Martian Luther King Jr came on the scene?

How does the public perceive these events during this time?

How does the Senate perceive these events?

What factors of this increased leadership support Civil Rights in the Senate?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the technique of Live Paring for Senate votes.

How does LBJ use this to become useful as a Whip?

What legislation is affected during LBJ's time as Whip because of Live Paring?

How do these actions effect LBJ's career?

Essay Topic 3

In the last 1800's, what is the seniority rule so important in the Senate? What factors lead to this need? How do Senator aids effect this need?

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