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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. What does the press accuse LBJ of in 1956?

2. How many votes does LBJ need to vote as a Bloc with the south against cloture?

3. How does LBJ feel he wins over the liberals for the coming Democratic Presidential nomination?

4. What tactic, successful in the past, fail during the rallies after African Americans have Martin Luther King Jr as a leader?

5. Who conducts the longest one man filibuster described in chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it important for LBJ to win the 1956 Democratic nomination?

2. What leads to the increase the black voters?

3. What is the public's reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education case?

4. Why does LBJ want his Vice Presidential offices to remain where his Senate offices are?

5. Why do the unions support LBJ's bill and provide him with the remaining votes he needs?

6. What are LBJ's fears when the Rules Committee forms a sub-committee to investigate campaign financing?

7. What is the result of Governor Faubus' actions regarding the African American children and Central High School?

8. What is Russell's strategy for the speeches given by the southerners over the Civil Rights bill?

9. How does LBJ keep a sense of urgency alive in the Senate?

10. Why does LBJ originally decline the support of the southern Senators for the presidential nomination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Provide examples of time when LBJ is humiliated.

How does LBJ deal with this humiliation?

Is he able to grow and learn from it?

Does he hold grudges against those who humiliates him?

How does LBJ actions after being humiliated compare and contract with how he acts after humiliating others?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Texas NYA? How does LBJ make a lasting impact on this organization and the people it serves? How does the organization make a lasting impact on LBJ? Provide examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What is Section 1985 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code? How does this section come into play with the Civil Rights legislation? What Senators are against this section and what do they do to stop it? What Senators are for this legislation and what do they do to keep it alive? Explain why this is so important in this piece of legislation.

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