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