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