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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. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

3. What benefit did Norris fight for to aid the people of Tennessee Valley?
(a) Low cost electricity.
(b) Tax relief for the poor.
(c) Coal mining concessions.
(d) Better roads and highways.

4. What famous piece of legislation bears Robert A. Taft's name?
(a) The Taft Health Plan.
(b) The Taft Education Manifesto.
(c) The Taft Welfare Act.
(d) The Taft-Hartley Act.

5. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?
(a) He made stump speeches for Hayes.
(b) He supported an election commission that eventually gave Hayes the Presidency.
(c) He voted against the Democrats and supported Hayes.
(d) He refused to fight the election results.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?

2. To whom was Ross compared in a Kansas newspaper editorial?

3. What was Lamar able to convince President Hayes to do?

4. Who was the Senator from Nebraska who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's Armed Ship Bill?

5. What was the Jay Treaty and why did President Washington support it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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