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