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