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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?
(a) Businesses who benefited from his help paid off his debts so he could remain in the senate.
(b) Webster appointed his relatives to Senate jobs.
(c) Webster lied under oath in a Senate hearing.
(d) Webster was offered a bfribe which he nearly accepted.

2. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?
(a) 299.
(b) 157.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 4,000.

3. What view did Webster take that made him unpopular with abolitionists?
(a) He refused to argue against salvery when he went to the Southern states.
(b) He did not feel that being a part of a Union that allowed slavery in some territories a viable alternative.
(c) He would not address the subject of slavery because he though it would just go away.
(d) He was a strong supporter of the Union and believed compromise on slavery was more important than breaking up the nation.

4. Under what law was President Andrew Johnson tried in the Congress?
(a) The Articles of Impeachment.
(b) The Articles of Confederation.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Civilian Code.

5. Of the 54 Senator in Congress, how many were openly opposed to the impeachment?
(a) Six Republicans and twelve Democrats.
(b) Only the twelve Democrats in the Senate.
(c) About half of the Republicans and all of the Democrats.
(d) Thirty-six radical Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Ross' military experience?

3. What was so strange about Henry Clay's enlisting Webster in his cause for compromise?

4. What were the circumstances that brought Edmund G. Ross to Congress as Senator from Kansas?

5. How did Ross describe his feelings just before he cast his not guilty vote?

(see the answer key)

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