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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the circumstances that brought Edmund G. Ross to Congress as Senator from Kansas?
(a) A landslide vote of the Kansas people.
(b) The resignation of Senator Lane who was a reconstructionist.
(c) He was sent after a recall of Senator Lane.
(d) The suicide of his predecessor, Senator Jim Lane.

2. How did Webster's constituents view his stand on compromise with the slave states?
(a) They were proud of their native son.
(b) It drew their wrath.
(c) They supported him wholeheartedly.
(d) They thought he should run for President.

3. What was one argument Webster made for compromising on the question of slavery?
(a) World opinion would eventually settle the question.
(b) If the Union divided, slavery might even become stronger in the Southern states.
(c) Northerns would be able to have slaves legally.
(d) Slavery would eventually dry up because there were fewer traders.

4. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.
(b) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(c) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.
(d) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?

2. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?

3. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?

4. To what does Kennedy ascribe as half the power of Webster?

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

(see the answer key)

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