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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 poet does Kennedy quote to express the bitterness of the South during reconstruction?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Vachal Lindsay.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

2. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?
(a) This is not the time to weaken the punishment of international crimes.
(b) That Taft wanted to let loose on the world a terrible gang of cutthroats.
(c) He has no feeling about the soup kitchens of 1932 but supports Nazi criminals.
(d) He has a wonderful mind that knows practically everything and understands practically nothing.

3. To whom was Ross compared in a Kansas newspaper editorial?
(a) Judas Escariot
(b) Thomas Payne.
(c) Marc Anthony
(d) Benedict Arnold.

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

5. Why was Ross targeted for surveillance and harassment before the Johnson trial.
(a) Stanton thought he could intimidate Ross with his military connections.
(b) He kept silent on how he might vote.
(c) He was using his secret to gain political notariety.
(d) Both sides believed he was weak willed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?

2. Why did George Norris decide to go against his constituents and vote according to his conscience?

3. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?

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

5. Who called Taft's speech against the Nazi war crimes trials a classic example of his muddled and confused thinking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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