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