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