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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?
(a) He viewed it as a short-term compromise.
(b) He believed that compromise would eventually lead to abolition.
(c) He wanted to bring the prospect of Civil War to a head.
(d) He thought it would give him power to run for President.

2. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?
(a) The conflict between political parties.
(b) The conflict of special interests versus constituency interests.
(c) The conflict of constituency interest versus national interests.
(d) The conflict between Congress and the Supreme Court.

3. What advantage did John Quincey Adams have as a politician?
(a) The confidence of coming from a strong political family.
(b) More education than experience.
(c) More money than anyone else.
(d) Ignorance of the Washington politics.

4. Why was John Quincey Adams generally unhappy?
(a) He never married his childhood sweetheart.
(b) He never felt he had accomplished enough.
(c) He never traveled abroad.
(d) He never couold live up to his mother's expectations.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In terms of service in office of both father and son, what similarity set them apart from presidents before and after them?

3. What effect did Webster's three-hour-long speech in the Senate have in 1850?

4. What view did Webster take that made him unpopular with abolitionists?

5. Who was the first son of a former president to become president of the U.S.?

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