Profiles in Courage Lottery Quiz

Question 1

Where is John Quincy Adams from?

Answer 1

Massachusettes

Question 2

What was John Quincy Adams’ bad choice?

Answer 2

He supported Jefferson in the passing of the Embargo Bill which tanked Mass economy

Question 3

What was John Quincy Adams’ vote?

Answer 3

He voted for the Louisiana Purchase

Question 4

What were John Quincy Adams’ consequences?

Answer 4

He resigned his seat in 1808

Question 5

Where is Daniel Webster from?

Answer 5

Massachusettes

Question 6

What was Daniel Webster’s bad choice?

Answer 6

He helped push The Great Compromise to keep the union from seperating

Question 7

What was Daniel Webster’s vote?

Answer 7

He voted for The Great Compromise to keep the union whole

Question 8

What were Daniel Webster’s consequences?

Answer 8

He resigned from the senate

Question 9

Where is Thomas Hart Benton from?

Answer 9

Missouri

Question 10

What was Thomas Hart Benton’s bad choice?

Answer 10

He refused to accept Calhoun’s new territory resoloution

Question 11

What was Thomas Hart Benton’s vote?

Answer 11

He voted not to accept Calhoun’s plan

Question 12

What were Thomas Hart Benton’s consequences?

Answer 12

He was voted out of office in 1851, and lost congress in 1855

Question 13

Where is Sam Houston from?

Answer 13

Texas

Question 14

What was Sam Houston’s bad choice?

Answer 14

He didn’t like that new territories could vote to be slave or non slave with the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 15

What was Sam Houston’s vote?

Answer 15

He voted against the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 16

What were Sam Houston’s consequences?

Answer 16

Rejected by Texas public when running for governor of Texas

Question 17

Where is Edmund Ross from?

Answer 17

Kansas

Question 18

What was Edmund Ross’ bad choice?

Answer 18

He was the deciding vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson

Question 19

What was Edmund Ross’ vote?

Answer 19

He chose not to impeach the President Andrew Johnson

Question 20

What were Edmund Ross’ consequences?

Answer 20

He wasn’t reelected to the Senate for Kansas and faced ridicule back home

Question 21

Where is Lucius Lamar from?

Answer 21

Mississippi

Question 22

What was Lucius Lamar’s bad choice?

Answer 22

He agreed to the findings of an election commission that gave the presidency to republican Rutherford Hayes and spoke a eulogy for Charles Sumner

Question 23

What was Lucius Lamar’s vote?

Answer 23

He voted against free silver which would’ve helped Mississippi’s economy in the short run

Question 24

What were Lucius Lamar’s consequences?

Answer 24

Nothing

Question 25

Where is George Norris from?

Answer 25

Nebraska

Question 26

What was George Norris’s bad choice?

Answer 26

He introduced a reform resolution that would strip speaker Joe Cannon of much of his power

Question 27

What was George Norris’s vote?

Answer 27

He voted against arming merchant ships

Question 28

What were George Norris’s consequences?

Answer 28

Nothing

Question 29

Where is Robert A. Taft from?

Answer 29

Ohio

Question 30

What was Robert A. Taft’s bad decision?

Answer 30

He fought the Nuremburg trials because he felt the Nazi prisoners were being tried unfairly with ex post facto laws

Question 31

What was Robert A. Taft’s vote?

Answer 31

He voted that the trials were unfair

Question 32

What were Robert A. Taft’s consequences?

Answer 32

He wasn’t elected president in 1948 due to his unpopular opinion