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

2. How had President Johnson come to power?
(a) He succeeded Lincoln after the assassination.
(b) He was appointed by Congress.
(c) He had President Lincoln assassinated.
(d) He was popularly elected President by the people.

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

4. 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.

5. Who made the statement that when he had made up his mind it was not in the power of man to divert him?
(a) John C. Calhoun.
(b) Lucius Lamar.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Sam Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Norris attack Joe Cannon's power?

2. What Speaker of the House did Norris oppose to the chagrin of his party?

3. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?

4. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

5. Why did George Norris believe Big Business was urging the country into war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Lamar able to win back the support of the people of Mississippi?

2. What was the first courageous act George W. Norris of Nebraska performed in Congress?

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

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

5. How did Lamar win respect from Northerners and Democrats in Congress?

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

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

8. What was the downfall of Sen. Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama?

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

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

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