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