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CLEP U.S. History
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
A Dark Romantic
Prisons and insane-asylums
John Dickenson
2. Who wrote 'Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'?
XYZ Affair
John Dickenson
Walt Whitman
John Winthrop
3. The temperance movement regulated what?
Did not free slaves in Border States
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alcohol
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
4. When the French demanded tribute from America before speaking with ambassadors it was called...
XYZ Affair
Walt Whitman
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
Freed slaves behind Confederate soldier lines - allowed free African American's to join the army - allowed free African American's to join the navy
5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...
John Winthrop
A romantic
A Dark Romantic
A Transcendentalist
6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?
A Transcendentalist
T.S. Arthur
Eli Whitney
Francis Scott Key
7. Walt Whitman was known as...
A Transcendentalist
Interchangeable parts
Thus always to tyrants
Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...
A Transcendentalist
John Wilkes Booth
George Whitefield
A Dark Romantic
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...
A romantic
A Transcendentalist
Education reform
John Winthrop
10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?
A lawyer
The accounting relating to slaves versus free people
California
Abraham Lincoln
11. Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Vikings
Harriet Tubman
A romantic
12. The idea that one branch of government is supervised by another is called...
A Romantic
Checks and balances
Interchangeable parts
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
13. Horace Mann fought for...
Education reform
Francis Scott Key
6th Amendment
10%
14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?
A lawyer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thomas Paine
Henry David Thoreau
15. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?
A Dark Romantic
10th Amendment
10%
Thus always to tyrants
16. Currier and Ives were known as...
Framers
Creator of lithographs
10%
A romantic
17. The person who assassinated Lincoln shouted the following after committing the murder 'Sic simper tyrannis'. What does it mean?
Rebirth
Thus always to tyrants
A romantic
6th Amendment
18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...
2nd Amendment
A Transcendentalist
Eli Whitney
A romantic
19. Which Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial?
A Dark Romantic
6th Amendment
A Dark Romantic
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
20. Which preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?
George Whitefield
Ulysses S. Grant
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
Rebirth
21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?
Spain
A lawyer
5th Amendment
John Wilkes Booth
22. She called for social and political equality for women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eli Whitney
Walt Whitman
Education reform
23. The Morill Tariff Act did what?
Walt Whitman
T.S. Arthur
Prisons and insane-asylums
Increased tariffs on imported goods
24. Dred Scott was...
1st Amendment
Alcohol
A lawyer
Checks and balances
25. Who gave the sermon 'City upon a Hill'?
A Transcendentalist
Did not free slaves in Border States
John Winthrop
6th Amendment
26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?
A Transcendentalist
Ulysses S. Grant
A Dark Romantic
T.S. Arthur
27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...
XYZ Affair
A Romantic
George Whitefield
6th Amendment
28. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?
A romantic
6th Amendment
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
2nd Amendment
29. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?
John Jay
Vikings
10%
John Wilkes Booth
30. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:
Abraham Lincoln
A Dark Romantic
Framers
A Transcendentalist
31. Who was first to discover the new world?
A Romantic
5th Amendment
2nd Amendment
Vikings
32. Which Amendment protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?
1st Amendment
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
10%
33. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Did not free slaves in Border States
6th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
Walt Whitman
Freed slaves behind Confederate soldier lines - allowed free African American's to join the army - allowed free African American's to join the navy
Prisons and insane-asylums
Thus always to tyrants
35. Columbus sailed for what country?
A Dark Romantic
Spain
Interchangeable parts
George Whitefield
36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...
A romantic
1st Amendment
A Dark Romantic
Rebirth
37. Renaissance means?
Education reform
Rebirth
Eli Whitney
Increased tariffs on imported goods
38. Which Amendment guarantees due process?
5th Amendment
John Jay
Creator of lithographs
Thus always to tyrants
39. Herman Melville was known as...
A Dark Romantic
6th Amendment
Alcohol
Prisons and insane-asylums
40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?
Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman
A Transcendentalist
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
41. While men were away at war - women did what?
1st Amendment
A romantic
A Romantic
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...
A Dark Romantic
A Transcendentalist
Walt Whitman
A Romantic
43. What percentage of the civil war army was African American?
10%
Increased tariffs on imported goods
Thus always to tyrants
XYZ Affair
44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?
A Dark Romantic
Henry David Thoreau
Creator of lithographs
Did not free slaves in Border States
45. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?
Education reform
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
The accounting relating to slaves versus free people
Checks and balances
46. The gold rush of 1849 sent settlers to what state?
Education reform
California
Henry David Thoreau
XYZ Affair
47. Dorothea Dix reformed...
A Dark Romantic
A Dark Romantic
Prisons and insane-asylums
Ulysses S. Grant
48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?
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49. What is one of the greatest discoveries of the time in manufacturing?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Interchangeable parts
Harriet Tubman
Prisons and insane-asylums
50. Who wrote 'Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There'?
Creator of lithographs
A lawyer
T.S. Arthur
Framers