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

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

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

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

5. Why was it so surprising to the Radical Republicans that Ross would not announce his vote before the trial began?
(a) The senior Senator from Kansas was for convicting Johnson.
(b) Because he was from Kansas, they thought he would not vote against his constituents.
(c) He had been anti-Johnson for many years.
(d) Roos' history was one of anti-slavery and against the southern states.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had President Johnson come to power?

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

3. What was Ross' military experience?

4. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happened to Ross after the Johnson impeachment proceedings?

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

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

9. After the Senate, what political office did Lamar hold?

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

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