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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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

3. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?

4. What does Kennedy suggest is the number of courageous Senators who have put their political lives on the line in order to speak honestly?

5. How many votes were needed to convict the President?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What difference does Kennedy see between breaking with a political party and breaking with a section?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Norris manage to stop the vote on the Armed Ship Bill?

10. After the Senate, what political office did Lamar hold?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper about a great example of political compromise in the history of the world. (You choose the topic.)

Essay Topic 2

Connect the annexation of Texas, the addition of Oregon, and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and show why they were so politically hot issues.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss in a paper why Sen. Norris' support for Al Smith for President might have been of special interest to Sen. John Kennedy.

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