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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 Ross' military experience?
(a) The Republic of Texas Army and the Union Army.
(b) The Union Army and the Union Navy.
(c) The Ohio Militia and the Confederate Army.
(d) The Kansas Free State Army and the Union Army.

2. What were the circumstances that brought Edmund G. Ross to Congress as Senator from Kansas?
(a) The suicide of his predecessor, Senator Jim Lane.
(b) The resignation of Senator Lane who was a reconstructionist.
(c) He was sent after a recall of Senator Lane.
(d) A landslide vote of the Kansas people.

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

4. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 157.
(c) 299.
(d) 1,000.

5. What were Norris' opening words at the public meeting in Nebraska after the filibuster?
(a) I am not a traitor.
(b) Four score and twenty years ago.
(c) Thank you for not hissing.
(d) I have come home to tell you the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ross targeted for surveillance and harassment before the Johnson trial.

2. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?

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

4. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?

5. After Lamar toured Mississippi to discuss his reasons for voting the way he did, how did the people react?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Norris' working knowledge of both poverty and war?

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

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

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

6. Why did Sen. Lamar vote against the Bland Silver Bill even though the Mississippi legislature had instructed him to vote for it?

7. Why is Ross called the man who saved a president?

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

9. Sen. Lucius Lamar of Mississippi entered Congress as a secessionist but after the Civil War he worked for compromise. Why?

10. What was Sen. Robert A. Taft's unrealized political ambition throughout his career?

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