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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the Civil War, what notable action did Lamar undertake with Jefferson Davis?
(a) Walking out of the Democratic Convention.
(b) Writing the Articles of Confederation.
(c) Designing the Confederate flag.
(d) Speaking out against secession.

2. What method did Sen. Norris use to prevent the passage of the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Buried in committee.
(b) Filibuster.
(c) Collecting enough votes to defveat it.
(d) A Petition.

3. What high office did Lamar hold at the end of his career?
(a) Secretary of the Interior.
(b) Vice-President of the United States.
(c) Justice of the Supreme Court.
(d) Head of the Democratic National Committee.

4. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?
(a) How he managed to appear charming when he was destroying an enemy.
(b) How he accepted Socialist philosophy.
(c) How he refrained from speaking his mind on controversial political issure.
(d) How he inspired loyal devotees as well as bitter enemies.

5. Who made the statement that when he had made up his mind it was not in the power of man to divert him?
(a) Sam Houston.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Lucius Lamar.
(d) John C. Calhoun.

6. How did Norris attack Joe Cannon's power?
(a) Press conferences informing the public of Cannon's abuse of power.
(b) A resolution requiring the entire House to study and amend a resolution, rather than just allow the Speaker to appoint a committee.
(c) Filibusters on every issue that Cannon favored.
(d) Impeachment threats against the Speaker of the House.

7. Why were the Radical Republicans happy to see Edmund G. Ross come to the Senate?
(a) He was adamantly against slavery and had worked hard for abolition.
(b) He had spoken out for Lincoln's reconstruction ideas.
(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.

8. What was the irony of Norris' using the filibuster to fight passage of the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Because Norris was unable to speak for long periods of time.
(b) Because Norris had said he would not filibuster the President's bills.
(c) Norris had actually tried to do away with the filibuster in an attempt to bring change to the Senate.
(d) Because the filibuster was something new that had never been tried before.

9. What poet does Kennedy quote to express the bitterness of the South during reconstruction?
(a) Longfellow.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Vachal Lindsay.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

10. Why was Norris' candidate for President unpopular in 1928?
(a) He was a Socialist.
(b) He was a Catholic.
(c) He was a Radical.
(d) He wore a moustache.

11. What was Lamar's main purpose in his political actions?
(a) To rekindle the anamosity between North and South.
(b) To become President of the United States.
(c) To transfer his allegience to the Northern Democrats.
(d) To bring the South peacefully back into the Union.

12. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?
(a) Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
(b) Joel Harris' SONG OF THE SOUTH.
(c) Plutarch's LIVES.
(d) Plato's REPUBLIC.

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

14. What did Robert A. Taft have in common with John Quincey Adams?
(a) They were both Quakers.
(b) They both went on to serve on the Supreme Court.
(c) Both of their fathers had served as President of the USA.
(d) They both went to the same university.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the six Republicans say they would not vote to convict President Johnson?

2. What was Johnson's purpose as President that caused him problems with the Radical Republicans?

3. How did Lucius Lamar first run for Congress?

4. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?

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

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