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