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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Benton's most effective weapons as a fighter?
(a) Friends and relatives.
(b) Knives and bull whips.
(c) Guns and canons.
(d) Wit and sarcasm.

2. What action by Texas brought about the end of Houston's career?
(a) Voting to return to its independent state as the Republic of Texas.
(b) Voting to declare war on the North and sending troups and money to the Confederacy.
(c) Secession from the Union and demanding a vow of loyalty to Texas as a member of the Confederacy..
(d) Seceeding from the Confederacy and impeaching Sam Houston.

3. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?
(a) As a citizen of the world.
(b) Not as a Massachusetts man but as an American.
(c) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.
(d) As a debator who loved to take any opposing view.

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

5. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?
(a) He made stump speeches for Hayes.
(b) He voted against the Democrats and supported Hayes.
(c) He supported an election commission that eventually gave Hayes the Presidency.
(d) He refused to fight the election results.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Webster's constituents view his stand on compromise with the slave states?

3. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?

4. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?

5. What was the dichotomy concerning John Quincey Adams' father?

(see the answer key)

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