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