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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) It provided for ships to supply weapons for the Allies in Europe.
(b) It provided a large tax increase to build upthe navy.
(c) It provided for arming neutral American merchant ships.
(d) It provided for US Navy action while claiming neutrality.

2. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?
(a) William Pitt Fessenden.
(b) James W. Grimes.
(c) John B. Henderson.
(d) Joseph Smith Fowler.

3. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?
(a) There was a black thread of moodiness in all the family.
(b) They were self taught but not uneducated.
(c) The fatal dowry of genius was upon the house.
(d) The Lamars had amassed a huge library.

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

5. Why did George Norris believe Big Business was urging the country into war?
(a) Because he feared the munitions profits was what was steamrolling the country into war.
(b) Because American business wanted to supply munitions to the Kaiser.
(c) Because Big Business supported Wilson only when he tried to stay neutral.
(d) Because the country was actually run by a few big businessmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action by Texas brought about the end of Houston's career?

2. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?

3. What does Kennedy identify as the personal tragedy and national greatness about Sen. Robert A. Taft?

4. What act of inconsistency brought his Missouri constituents to brand him a traitor?

5. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?

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