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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what basis did Edmund G. Ross claim his right not to decide until all the evidence was presented against Johnson.
(a) He thought it was all a big joke.
(b) He had taken the oath of impartiality.
(c) He wanted the publicity.
(d) He was trying to get bribe money for his vote.

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

4. What famous piece of legislation bears Robert A. Taft's name?
(a) The Taft Education Manifesto.
(b) The Taft Welfare Act.
(c) The Taft-Hartley Act.
(d) The Taft Health Plan.

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

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

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

8. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?
(a) Polio.
(b) Laryngitis.
(c) Apoplexy.
(d) Dyptheria.

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

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

11. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.
(b) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(c) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.
(d) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.

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

13. What does Kennedy suggest is the number of courageous Senators who have put their political lives on the line in order to speak honestly?
(a) He wrote down a list of over fifty.
(b) There are too many to name.
(c) The ones in his book are the only ones.
(d) He said every Senator has that kind of honesty.

14. Taft supported education, health, housing, and other welfare programs against his normal conservative Republicanism. Why?
(a) It was an attempt on his part to placate the unions.
(b) He wanted to play both sides of the fence in a bid for the Presidency.
(c) His state of Ohio had high unemployment and needed those services.
(d) He felt these were not being served adequately by the private sector.

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

2. How did Taft's candor cause him to lose his party's nomination for President?

3. What nickname was given to Joe Cannon because of his power?

4. Of the 54 Senator in Congress, how many were openly opposed to the impeachment?

5. How was Lamar similar to author Joel Harris?

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