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