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