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