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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?
(a) Our country would be better off with an Indian tribe style government of blood and prejudice.
(b) The people of Indiana will see the error of their ways one day in the future.
(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.

5. What senator dashed his presidential hopes by speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) Sen. Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama.
(b) Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri.
(c) Sen. Lucius Lamar of Mississippi.
(d) Sen. Sam Houston of Texas.

6. Who was the only Southern senator who refused to secede with his state?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Thomas Hart Benton.

7. Under what law was President Andrew Johnson tried in the Congress?
(a) The Civilian Code.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Articles of Impeachment.
(d) The Articles of Confederation.

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

9. Who was the butcher of New Orleans who was the chief prosecutor in Johnson's impeachment trial?
(a) Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.
(b) Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Gen. Robert E. Lee.
(d) Gen William Tecumseh Sherman.

10. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?
(a) He advocated letting the Isralies try the German war criminals.
(b) He thought the German war criminals should be tried in America.
(c) He had supported the Germans during WWII.
(d) He believed the crimes were being tried under an ex post facto law which he felt was unconstitutional and un-American.

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

12. What was the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) It provided for US Navy action while claiming neutrality.
(b) It provided for ships to supply weapons for the Allies in Europe.
(c) It provided for arming neutral American merchant ships.
(d) It provided a large tax increase to build upthe navy.

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

14. What Speaker of the House did Norris oppose to the chagrin of his party?
(a) John Dalzell.
(b) Walter Smith.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Joe Cannon.

15. Who said that he would rather be in his grave than in the presidency?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John C. Clahoun.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Norris' opening words at the public meeting in Nebraska after the filibuster?

2. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

3. Who was the Senator from Nebraska who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's Armed Ship Bill?

4. What unwanted praise did Norris and his group receive after the filibuster?

5. What did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?

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