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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) The Mexican conspiracy.
(b) The sinking of the Titanic.
(c) The Kaiser's war zone warning.
(d) The Zimmerman note.

2. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?
(a) He supported it to help save Mississippi.
(b) He saw it as a depletion of the nation's silver.
(c) He was too ill to pay it much attention.
(d) He saw it as creating easy inflationary money.

3. What two bills did Houston support that made him unpopular in the South?
(a) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
(b) Calhoun's bills and resolutions on the Oregon question.
(c) The repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the bill of rights.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska bill and the articles of confederation.

4. What were the results of Norris' opposition of President Wilson on the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) He was taken off all Senate committees.
(b) He was vilified for acting against the President.
(c) He resigned his seat in the Senate.
(d) He was recalled by Nebraska.

5. On what basis did Edmund G. Ross claim his right not to decide until all the evidence was presented against Johnson.
(a) He wanted the publicity.
(b) He thought it was all a big joke.
(c) He had taken the oath of impartiality.
(d) He was trying to get bribe money for his vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the irony of Norris' using the filibuster to fight passage of the Armed Ship Bill?

2. Did Norris always oppose President Wilson's measures?

3. To what does Kennedy ascribe as half the power of Webster?

4. What does Kennedy say was a liability about Webster's immense popularity with both sides of the political spectrum?

5. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?

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