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