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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Benton's characteristic that early on made his constituents love him?
(a) His political favors.
(b) His humble nature.
(c) His sense of humor.
(d) His fearlessness.

2. How does Kennedy assess the failure of both Adams presidencies to produce second terms?
(a) Poor choices for their cabinet members.
(b) Unwillingness to campaign for a second term in office.
(c) Personalities that clased with everyone not of their religion.
(d) An unwillingness to compromise on mundane matters of politics.

3. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?
(a) His family.
(b) His god.
(c) His party.
(d) His people.

4. Besides appearing to be disloyal to his father when he aligned himself with Jefferson's politics, what other problem arose for John Quincey Adams?
(a) Disillusionment of his party when he broke with them and voted with Jefferson.
(b) His mother becaue distraught that her son and husband did not agree.
(c) He was forced to change political parties and lose his seniority.
(d) He lost his political influence for many months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who served as the Governor of Tennessee and later as Senator from the State of Texas?

2. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?

3. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

4. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?

5. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?

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