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