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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

2. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?
(a) Joseph Smith Fowler.
(b) John B. Henderson.
(c) James W. Grimes.
(d) William Pitt Fessenden.

3. Why were the Radical Republicans happy to see Edmund G. Ross come to the Senate?
(a) He had spoken out for Lincoln's reconstruction ideas.
(b) He was adamantly against slavery and had worked hard for abolition.
(c) He was inexperienced in politics and the Senators could control him.
(d) He was a moderate who opposed slave states but owned slaves himself.

4. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.
(b) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(c) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.
(d) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.

5. How did Ross describe his feelings just before he cast his not guilty vote?
(a) I felt the chill of fear on my spine.
(b) I was afraid I could not speak.
(c) I looked down at my open grave.
(d) I had a great lump in my throat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Webster not bothered by what many would consider as bribes?

2. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?

3. What was Ross' military experience?

4. Of the 54 Senator in Congress, how many were openly opposed to the impeachment?

5. Taft supported education, health, housing, and other welfare programs against his normal conservative Republicanism. Why?

(see the answer key)

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