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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous American represented the Boston Massacre defendants in 1770?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Charles Evans Hughes.
(c) Thomas Payne.
(d) Paul Revere.

2. Why was Ross targeted for surveillance and harassment before the Johnson trial.
(a) He was using his secret to gain political notariety.
(b) Stanton thought he could intimidate Ross with his military connections.
(c) He kept silent on how he might vote.
(d) Both sides believed he was weak willed.

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

4. What famous speech did Lamar give in Congress?
(a) The Stars and Stripes speech.
(b) The case for Confederacy speech.
(c) Give me liberty of give me death speech.
(d) An eloquent eulogy for Charles Sumner.

5. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 299.
(d) 157.

6. Which courageous Senator refused to support the expunging of some of Jackson's military activities?
(a) Sen. Oscar Underwood of Alabama.
(b) Sen. John Tyler of Virginia.
(c) Sen. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.
(d) Sen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.

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

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

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

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

11. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?
(a) This is not the time to weaken the punishment of international crimes.
(b) That Taft wanted to let loose on the world a terrible gang of cutthroats.
(c) He has a wonderful mind that knows practically everything and understands practically nothing.
(d) He has no feeling about the soup kitchens of 1932 but supports Nazi criminals.

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

13. 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 was vilified for acting against the President.
(d) He resigned his seat in the Senate.

14. Who was the Senator from Nebraska who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Rutherford Hayes.
(b) Lucius Lamar.
(c) George W. Norris.
(d) James W. Grimes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How had President Johnson come to power?

2. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?

3. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?

4. Under what law was President Andrew Johnson tried in the Congress?

5. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?

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