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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 characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?
(a) How he managed to appear charming when he was destroying an enemy.
(b) How he refrained from speaking his mind on controversial political issure.
(c) How he inspired loyal devotees as well as bitter enemies.
(d) How he accepted Socialist philosophy.

2. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?
(a) That those who supported the Union should be tried as war criminals.
(b) That people should save their confederate money.
(c) That laws needed to be enacted to punish carpetbaggers.
(d) The way to end the South's suffering was compromise and reconciliation with the North.

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

4. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?
(a) Tact and humor.
(b) Stubbornness and greed.
(c) Envy and averace.
(d) Amiability and aimlessness.

5. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) The sinking of the Titanic.
(b) The Mexican conspiracy.
(c) The Kaiser's war zone warning.
(d) The Zimmerman note.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which candidate did Norris support in the 1928 Presidential election?

2. Taft's words on freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, and the right to think for oneself are his definition of what?

3. Who was the only Southern senator who refused to secede with his state?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the reaction of the Democrats to Taft's public statements?

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

6. How did the Senate Republicans feel about Ross when he first came to Congress?

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

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

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

10. Why was the Jay Treaty of 1795 so unpopular in the new country of the United States?

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