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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What famous American represented the Boston Massacre defendants in 1770?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Thomas Payne.
(c) Paul Revere.
(d) Charles Evans Hughes.

3. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?
(a) Clay's bid for re-election.
(b) Re-writing the Bill of Rights to include slavery.
(c) The Great Compromise of 1850.
(d) Speaches warning about Abraham Lincoln's political ambitions.

4. Why did Houston define himself as an old fogy?
(a) Because, he said, I don't always practice what I preach.
(b) Because, he said, I cling devotedly to the principles upon which our government was founded.
(c) Because, he said, he had been made a martyr for Texas.
(d) Because, he said, I have been around far too long and need to retire.

5. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?
(a) His party.
(b) His people.
(c) His god.
(d) His family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who suggested that Senators were vulgar demagogues?

3. What nickname was given to Joe Cannon because of his power?

4. Why did Benton oppose the treaty of annexation of Texas?

5. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?

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