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