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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many votes were needed to convict the President?
(a) 36.
(b) 66.
(c) 40.
(d) 54.

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

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

4. Taft supported education, health, housing, and other welfare programs against his normal conservative Republicanism. Why?
(a) He wanted to play both sides of the fence in a bid for the Presidency.
(b) He felt these were not being served adequately by the private sector.
(c) His state of Ohio had high unemployment and needed those services.
(d) It was an attempt on his part to placate the unions.

5. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?
(a) How he refrained from speaking his mind on controversial political issure.
(b) How he managed to appear charming when he was destroying an enemy.
(c) How he inspired loyal devotees as well as bitter enemies.
(d) How he accepted Socialist philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had President Johnson come to power?

2. Of the 54 Senator in Congress, how many were openly opposed to the impeachment?

3. What was one argument Webster made for compromising on the question of slavery?

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

5. Why was Webster not bothered by what many would consider as bribes?

(see the answer key)

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