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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 did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?
(a) My vote was unimportant in a Senate populated with Radical Republicans and Democrats.
(b) The directions for how I should vote arrived after the vote had already been taken.
(c) I believe that statesmanship is dead in the South.
(d) If I had voted for it as directed I should have cast my first vote against my conscience.

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

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

4. What was the Jay Treaty and why did President Washington support it?
(a) It was a treaty to buy arms and munitions only from the British.
(b) It was a treaty with Great Britain that President Washington supported to keep the young country from going to war.
(c) It was a treaty giving land west of the Mississippi to the British.
(d) It was a treaty removing all taxes from British imports supported by Washington to protect the rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?

2. What famous American represented the Boston Massacre defendants in 1770?

3. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?

4. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?

5. What benefit did Norris fight for to aid the people of Tennessee Valley?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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