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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. Under what law was President Andrew Johnson tried in the Congress?

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

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

4. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

5. How did Lucius Lamar first run for Congress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the first courageous act George W. Norris of Nebraska performed in Congress?

4. What was the result of Lamar's appointment to oversee the recount in the Hayes-Tilden presidential vote?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Write a narrative about what it must have been like for Sam Houston to live with the Cherokee as a boy.

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