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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?
(a) He refused to fight the election results.
(b) He voted against the Democrats and supported Hayes.
(c) He made stump speeches for Hayes.
(d) He supported an election commission that eventually gave Hayes the Presidency.

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

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

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

5. Why did Norris oppose the Armed Ship Bill when his state seemed to favor it?
(a) He wanted to gain fame as the man who defied President Wilson.
(b) He thought it should really be a declaration of war.
(c) Norris believed it was a ploy to get the US into WWI without going through congress.
(d) He thought the bill would prevent the US from declaring war on Germany.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?
(a) My vote was unimportant in a Senate populated with Radical Republicans and Democrats.
(b) If I had voted for it as directed I should have cast my first vote against my conscience.
(c) I believe that statesmanship is dead in the South.
(d) The directions for how I should vote arrived after the vote had already been taken.

13. 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 felt that his constituents were being led by the alarmist press.
(c) He said that just voting as he was told required no patriotism, no education, and no courage.
(d) He was convinced that it was the only way for him to get publicity.

14. 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.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the statement that when he had made up his mind it was not in the power of man to divert him?

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

3. Taft's words on freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, and the right to think for oneself are his definition of what?

4. What was the Armed Ship Bill?

5. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?

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