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