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