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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 appointed his relatives to Senate jobs.
(d) Webster lied under oath in a Senate hearing.

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

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

4. What act of inconsistency brought his Missouri constituents to brand him a traitor?
(a) His willingness to allow the country to go to war.
(b) His opposition to the Missouri Compromise.
(c) His voting with the Republicans.
(d) His opposition to annexting Texas.

5. Why did Benton oppose the treaty of annexation of Texas?
(a) Because Texas would cost too much money.
(b) Because of his commitment to the Union.
(c) Because Texas was too big.
(d) Because he disliked Sam Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first pressure of Americans that keeps them from acting courageously according to Kennedy?

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

3. What were Benton's most effective weapons as a fighter?

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

5. What was one of Benton's favorite sayings about himself?

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