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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?
(a) Jacob Javits.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Alben Barkley.
(d) John Nance Garner.

4. Why did the six Republicans say they would not vote to convict President Johnson?
(a) They said they didn't need to vote because there was a 36 majority anyway.
(b) They said some Prepblicans should vote no to make the party look unbiased.
(c) They said the evidence was not sufficient.
(d) They came from conservative states.

5. Who called Taft's speech against the Nazi war crimes trials a classic example of his muddled and confused thinking?
(a) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
(b) Newspaper columnist David Lawrence.
(c) Former Nazi Franz Von Papen.
(d) Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois.

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

7. How did Lucius Lamar first run for Congress?
(a) As a secessionist.
(b) As a Radical Republican.
(c) As a pro-Unionist.
(d) As an independent.

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

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

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

11. What was Lamar able to convince President Hayes to do?
(a) Withdraw occupation troops and restore Home Rule in key states.
(b) Give Tilden a much sought after ambassadorship.
(c) Apologize to the South for certain military actions during the war.
(d) Appoint Southerners to key positions in his cabinet.

12. What does Kennedy identify as the personal tragedy and national greatness about Sen. Robert A. Taft?
(a) That he aspired to be President but his uncompromising sense of right prevented that from happening.
(b) That his father had been President but he had no such ambitions.
(c) That he got his party's nomination three times but never won a Presidential election.
(d) That he would always speak out in such a way that appeared to compromise his beliefs.

13. What was Ross' military experience?
(a) The Kansas Free State Army and the Union Army.
(b) The Union Army and the Union Navy.
(c) The Republic of Texas Army and the Union Army.
(d) The Ohio Militia and the Confederate Army.

14. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?
(a) That the Axis prisoners should not be allowed representation by lawyers.
(b) That the Axis war crimes trials went against every principle of American justice.
(c) That the Constitution of the USA allowed for ex post facto prosecutions.
(d) That the Axis war crimes trials did not try the real offenders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?

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

3. How had President Johnson come to power?

4. Why was Norris' candidate for President unpopular in 1928?

5. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?

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