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