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