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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.
(c) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(d) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.

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

4. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?
(a) That the Axis prisoners should not be allowed representation by lawyers.
(b) That the Axis war crimes trials did not try the real offenders.
(c) That the Constitution of the USA allowed for ex post facto prosecutions.
(d) That the Axis war crimes trials went against every principle of American justice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Norris oppose the Armed Ship Bill when his state seemed to favor it?

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

3. Which courageous Senator refused to support the expunging of some of Jackson's military activities?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was wrong with the situation under the lead of Czar Cannon in the House?

2. What immediate reaction came from Gov. Dewey of New York after Taft opposed the Nazi war crimes trials?

3. What was an outstanding act of courage performed by Sen. John Tyler of Virginia?

4. Why was it courageous of Norris to support Al Smith for President?

5. What is some of the speculation regarding Ross' not revealing how he would vote until he cast his vote on the Senate floor?

6. What was the Armed Ship Bill and why did Norris oppose it?

7. How did Norris manage to stop the vote on the Armed Ship Bill?

8. What was the result of Lamar's appointment to oversee the recount in the Hayes-Tilden presidential vote?

9. How did Edmund G. Ross come to the U.S. Senate from Kansas?

10. Why did Taft speak out against the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war leaders?

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