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