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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did George Norris decide to go against his constituents and vote according to his conscience?
(a) It was his purpose to run for President in the next general election.
(b) He said that just voting as he was told required no patriotism, no education, and no courage.
(c) He was convinced that it was the only way for him to get publicity.
(d) He felt that his constituents were being led by the alarmist press.

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

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

5. Which senator saved himself from dunking by giving a speech beside the river?
(a) Sen. John Adams of Massachusetts.
(b) Sen. Stephen Austin of Texas.
(c) Sen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.
(d) Sen. Jacob J. Javits of New York.

6. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?
(a) Tact and humor.
(b) Envy and averace.
(c) Stubbornness and greed.
(d) Amiability and aimlessness.

7. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?
(a) That laws needed to be enacted to punish carpetbaggers.
(b) That those who supported the Union should be tried as war criminals.
(c) That people should save their confederate money.
(d) The way to end the South's suffering was compromise and reconciliation with the North.

8. What was the Jay Treaty and why did President Washington support it?
(a) It was a treaty with Great Britain that President Washington supported to keep the young country from going to war.
(b) It was a treaty giving land west of the Mississippi to the British.
(c) It was a treaty to buy arms and munitions only from the British.
(d) It was a treaty removing all taxes from British imports supported by Washington to protect the rich.

9. How many votes were needed to convict the President?
(a) 36.
(b) 54.
(c) 40.
(d) 66.

10. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?
(a) It is all right, twelve years of hard work, and a clean record; I am content.
(b) The people of Indiana will see the error of their ways one day in the future.
(c) Our country would be better off with an Indian tribe style government of blood and prejudice.
(d) I can see now that I should have kept my mouth shut and my mind open.

11. How had President Johnson come to power?
(a) He had President Lincoln assassinated.
(b) He was popularly elected President by the people.
(c) He was appointed by Congress.
(d) He succeeded Lincoln after the assassination.

12. Which bitter rival of Sen. Robert A. Taft actually ended up in the White House?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhaur.
(b) Thomas E. Dewey.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

13. Of the 54 Senator in Congress, how many were openly opposed to the impeachment?
(a) Only the twelve Democrats in the Senate.
(b) Thirty-six radical Republicans.
(c) Six Republicans and twelve Democrats.
(d) About half of the Republicans and all of the Democrats.

14. How did Taft's candor cause him to lose his party's nomination for President?
(a) His answers were always truthful and very often blunt.
(b) He did not always say exactly what he meant.
(c) People thought you could not trust a man like that.
(d) His candor caused him to be overly tactful.

15. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?
(a) There was a black thread of moodiness in all the family.
(b) The fatal dowry of genius was upon the house.
(c) The Lamars had amassed a huge library.
(d) They were self taught but not uneducated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?

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

3. On what basis did Edmund G. Ross claim his right not to decide until all the evidence was presented against Johnson.

4. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?

5. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?

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