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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Benton urge support for expansion to the West?
(a) He made a Congressional junket to Oregon.
(b) He voted to give tax breaks to manufacturers of wagons.
(c) He pushed a measure giving extra benefits to leaders of wagon trains.
(d) He supported communications methods such as the telegraph, the Pony Express and roadways that ran into the country.

2. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?
(a) Houston opposed slavery except in the South.
(b) Houston disliked all Yankees.
(c) Houston owned slaves himself.
(d) Houston was a slave to the Cherokee.

3. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?
(a) A conflict of interests.
(b) The east coast, craggy, rocky, somber and strong.
(c) A mighty ship in a storm.
(d) Kennedy's Catholicism.

4. When Houston ran away from home in his childhood, where did he go?
(a) To live with the Cherokee.
(b) To Texas.
(c) To his grandfather.
(d) To sea.

5. How did Benton's reputation for being crazy become problematic to his opponents?
(a) They never knew what he might do next.
(b) They feared he would blow up the capitol building.
(c) They feared he would challenge them to a duel.
(d) They thought people would think they were picking on Benton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Webster speech in the Senate became known by the date it was given?

2. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?

3. What was Lamar's main purpose in his political actions?

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

5. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?

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