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