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