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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Dartmouth.

2. How was Benton's behavior different when he was with his family from when he was involved in politics?
(a) He was easy on political opponents and harsh on his family.
(b) He hid his wife's mental illness from the public.
(c) He held his family by fear.
(d) He was always warm and gentle around his family.

3. What was it about Benton that inspired the approval of his Missouri constituency?
(a) He arranged a lot of pork barrel spending in Missouri.
(b) He was also very popular among his party members.
(c) He did not care about political pressures and did what he thought was right.
(d) He took young Congressmen under his wing.

4. Why did the six Republicans say they would not vote to convict President Johnson?
(a) They said some Prepblicans should vote no to make the party look unbiased.
(b) They said the evidence was not sufficient.
(c) They came from conservative states.
(d) They said they didn't need to vote because there was a 36 majority anyway.

5. What was rumored to be the cause of Houston's breakdown and resigning as Governor of Tennessee?
(a) He started drinking heavily and could not perform his duties.
(b) People were pressuring him to run for President of the Union but he did not want to.
(c) He discovered that his young bride had been forced to marry him even though she loved another.
(d) General Andrew Jackson called him for an important secret mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did George Norris believe Big Business was urging the country into war?

2. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?

3. When Houston ran away from home in his childhood, where did he go?

4. What made Sam Houston a household word in the United States?

5. What famous American represented the Boston Massacre defendants in 1770?

(see the answer key)

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