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