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