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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 act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.
(b) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.
(c) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.
(d) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.

2. Who was the butcher of New Orleans who was the chief prosecutor in Johnson's impeachment trial?
(a) Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.
(b) Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Gen William Tecumseh Sherman.
(d) Gen. Robert E. Lee.

3. What did Robert A. Taft have in common with John Quincey Adams?
(a) They both went on to serve on the Supreme Court.
(b) They both went to the same university.
(c) They were both Quakers.
(d) Both of their fathers had served as President of the USA.

4. What senator dashed his presidential hopes by speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) Sen. Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama.
(b) Sen. Sam Houston of Texas.
(c) Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri.
(d) Sen. Lucius Lamar of Mississippi.

5. What method did Sen. Norris use to prevent the passage of the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) A Petition.
(b) Buried in committee.
(c) Collecting enough votes to defveat it.
(d) Filibuster.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the Armed Ship Bill?

4. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?

5. What were the results of Norris' opposition of President Wilson on the Armed Ship Bill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was the Armed Ship Bill and why did Norris oppose it?

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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