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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 would not address the subject of slavery because he though it would just go away.
(c) He was a strong supporter of the Union and believed compromise on slavery was more important than breaking up the nation.
(d) He did not feel that being a part of a Union that allowed slavery in some territories a viable alternative.

2. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?
(a) Averice and greed.
(b) Not enough education about courage.
(c) Fear of the unknown.
(d) Social and public pressures.

3. 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 rallied the North to declare war on the South.
(c) It gave the South the idea of secession.
(d) It made many political allies for Webster.

4. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?
(a) The basic principles our country was founded on.
(b) Where to look for courage in a politician.
(c) How to tell if a man is honest.
(d) What courage actually is.

5. 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 debator who loved to take any opposing view.
(d) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Webster a leader in the North prior to the Civil War?

2. What does Kennedy identify as the second pressure that prevents courageous deeds by elected officials.

3. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

4. What was the result of Webster's courageous stand in giving the Seventh of March speech?

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

(see the answer key)

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