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