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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 Johnson's purpose as President that caused him problems with the Radical Republicans?
(a) His purpose was to carry out Lincoln's reconstruction plans.
(b) His purpose was to see that the Southern States were severely punished.
(c) His purpose was to get re-elected President for a full term.
(d) His purpose was to establish a political stronghold for himself.

2. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?
(a) He had supported the Germans during WWII.
(b) He thought the German war criminals should be tried in America.
(c) He believed the crimes were being tried under an ex post facto law which he felt was unconstitutional and un-American.
(d) He advocated letting the Isralies try the German war criminals.

3. How was Lamar similar to author Joel Harris?
(a) Lamar, like Harris, told tales about the South.
(b) Lamar had a pet named Br'er Rabbit.
(c) Lamar wrote a book called Tunes of the South.
(d) Lamar, like Harris, was a graduate of Oxford.

4. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?
(a) Plutarch's LIVES.
(b) Plato's REPUBLIC.
(c) Joel Harris' SONG OF THE SOUTH.
(d) Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

5. Which bitter rival of Sen. Robert A. Taft actually ended up in the White House?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhaur.
(b) Harry S. Truman.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Thomas E. Dewey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the butcher of New Orleans who was the chief prosecutor in Johnson's impeachment trial?

2. What was Ross' military experience?

3. What high office did Lamar hold at the end of his career?

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

5. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were Ross' feelings about the presidency that caused him to vote the way he did even though he opposed President Andrew Johnson?

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