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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did Webster's three-hour-long speech in the Senate have in 1850?
(a) It helped hold off the Civil War for a good ten years.
(b) It gave the South the idea of secession.
(c) It made many political allies for Webster.
(d) It rallied the North to declare war on the South.

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

3. Why was it considered a contradiction when Houston supported temperance?
(a) He owned a brewery.
(b) His political supporters opposed temperance.
(c) He was a heavy drinker.
(d) He made his money in rum running.

4. What did the historian Wharton say about Houston's courage as he fought against Texas' secession from the Union?
(a) No one paid any attention as Houston entered the Secessionist Convention.
(b) Houston finally lost his courage and gave in to popular opinion.
(c) It took a thousand times more courage than charging up the hill at San Jacinto.
(d) He relapsed into alcoholism and went back to the Cherokee.

5. Who served as the Governor of Tennessee and later as Senator from the State of Texas?
(a) Henry Calhoun.
(b) Sam Houston.
(c) Thomas Hart Benton.
(d) Stephen A. Austin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Houston say he wanted it written that he loved his country, he was a patriot, and he was devoted to the Union.

2. How was Benton's behavior different when he was with his family from when he was involved in politics?

3. What is an irony of Benton's opposition to the slave states?

4. How does Kennedy assess the failure of both Adams presidencies to produce second terms?

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

(see the answer key)

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