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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 Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?

2. What famous American represented the Boston Massacre defendants in 1770?

3. What was ironic when the Matthews Resolution came up for a vote in the Senate?

4. What did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?

5. Who was the butcher of New Orleans who was the chief prosecutor in Johnson's impeachment trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the downfall of Sen. Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama?

3. Why did Sen. Lamar vote against the Bland Silver Bill even though the Mississippi legislature had instructed him to vote for it?

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

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

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

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

8. How did the Senate Republicans feel about Ross when he first came to Congress?

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

10. What was Sen. Robert A. Taft's unrealized political ambition throughout his career?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on your personal idea of courage. Use some example from your life or that you know about personally.

Essay Topic 2

Write about a time when you found it necessary to compromise.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the presidencies of John Adams and John Quincey Adams and the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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