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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 believed the crimes were being tried under an ex post facto law which he felt was unconstitutional and un-American.
(c) He had supported the Germans during WWII.
(d) He thought the German war criminals should be tried in America.

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

4. What was ironic when the Matthews Resolution came up for a vote in the Senate?
(a) Lamar voted against it but the other Senator, a Negro appointed by the reconstruction, voted for it.
(b) Matthews voted against his own resolution.
(c) The Resolution came before the Senate before the Bland Bill.
(d) Lamar had gone back to Mississippi and missed the vote.

5. 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.

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

7. What was the Jay Treaty and why did President Washington support it?
(a) It was a treaty removing all taxes from British imports supported by Washington to protect the rich.
(b) It was a treaty to buy arms and munitions only from the British.
(c) It was a treaty with Great Britain that President Washington supported to keep the young country from going to war.
(d) It was a treaty giving land west of the Mississippi to the British.

8. Which senator saved himself from dunking by giving a speech beside the river?
(a) Sen. Stephen Austin of Texas.
(b) Sen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.
(c) Sen. John Adams of Massachusetts.
(d) Sen. Jacob J. Javits of New York.

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?
(a) He saw it as a depletion of the nation's silver.
(b) He was too ill to pay it much attention.
(c) He supported it to help save Mississippi.
(d) He saw it as creating easy inflationary money.

14. 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.

15. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Fourteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the results of Norris' opposition of President Wilson on the Armed Ship Bill?

2. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?

3. What method did Sen. Norris use to prevent the passage of the Armed Ship Bill?

4. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?

5. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?

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