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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the irony of Norris' using the filibuster to fight passage of the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Because the filibuster was something new that had never been tried before.
(b) Because Norris had said he would not filibuster the President's bills.
(c) Norris had actually tried to do away with the filibuster in an attempt to bring change to the Senate.
(d) Because Norris was unable to speak for long periods of time.

2. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?
(a) Our country would be better off with an Indian tribe style government of blood and prejudice.
(b) I can see now that I should have kept my mouth shut and my mind open.
(c) It is all right, twelve years of hard work, and a clean record; I am content.
(d) The people of Indiana will see the error of their ways one day in the future.

3. Why did the six Republicans say they would not vote to convict President Johnson?
(a) They came from conservative states.
(b) They said the evidence was not sufficient.
(c) They said some Prepblicans should vote no to make the party look unbiased.
(d) They said they didn't need to vote because there was a 36 majority anyway.

4. How was Lamar similar to author Joel Harris?
(a) Lamar wrote a book called Tunes of the South.
(b) Lamar, like Harris, told tales about the South.
(c) Lamar, like Harris, was a graduate of Oxford.
(d) Lamar had a pet named Br'er Rabbit.

5. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?
(a) That the Axis prisoners should not be allowed representation by lawyers.
(b) That the Axis war crimes trials went against every principle of American justice.
(c) That the Constitution of the USA allowed for ex post facto prosecutions.
(d) That the Axis war crimes trials did not try the real offenders.

6. Who said that he would rather be in his grave than in the presidency?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John C. Clahoun.
(d) John Adams.

7. What was Lamar's main purpose in his political actions?
(a) To bring the South peacefully back into the Union.
(b) To become President of the United States.
(c) To rekindle the anamosity between North and South.
(d) To transfer his allegience to the Northern Democrats.

8. Who was the only Southern senator who refused to secede with his state?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Thomas Hart Benton.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

9. What was Lamar able to convince President Hayes to do?
(a) Appoint Southerners to key positions in his cabinet.
(b) Withdraw occupation troops and restore Home Rule in key states.
(c) Apologize to the South for certain military actions during the war.
(d) Give Tilden a much sought after ambassadorship.

10. What famous speech did Lamar give in Congress?
(a) The case for Confederacy speech.
(b) The Stars and Stripes speech.
(c) Give me liberty of give me death speech.
(d) An eloquent eulogy for Charles Sumner.

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

12. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?
(a) John Nance Garner.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Alben Barkley.
(d) Jacob Javits.

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

14. What was ironic when the Matthews Resolution came up for a vote in the Senate?
(a) The Resolution came before the Senate before the Bland Bill.
(b) Lamar had gone back to Mississippi and missed the vote.
(c) Lamar voted against it but the other Senator, a Negro appointed by the reconstruction, voted for it.
(d) Matthews voted against his own resolution.

15. Taft's words on freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, and the right to think for oneself are his definition of what?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Unitarianism.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Conservatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?

2. What senator dashed his presidential hopes by speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan?

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

4. What Speaker of the House did Norris oppose to the chagrin of his party?

5. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?

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