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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. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?
(a) 157.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 299.

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

3. 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.

4. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?
(a) He has a wonderful mind that knows practically everything and understands practically nothing.
(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) This is not the time to weaken the punishment of international crimes.

5. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?
(a) Laryngitis.
(b) Dyptheria.
(c) Polio.
(d) Apoplexy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?

2. What method did Sen. Norris use to prevent the passage of the Armed Ship Bill?

3. What famous speech did Lamar give in Congress?

4. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?

5. How did Ross describe his feelings just before he cast his not guilty vote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Norris' working knowledge of both poverty and war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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