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